Russell A. Mittermeier;Anthony B. Rylands;Don E. Wilson
Eulemur flavifrons
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sclater's lemur, blue-eyed black lemur
species of mammal
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Eulemur flavifrons is indexed among the 9,479 entries in Vinony's Critically Endangered Species collection.
Within Vinony's link graph, Eulemur flavifrons is referenced by 52 other articles, and connects out to Critically Endangered, Eulemur and Madagascar.
It sits within the topics Commons link from Wikidata, Critically endangered fauna of Africa and Endemic fauna of Madagascar.
Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Critically EndangeredSPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderPrimates
- FamilyLemuridae
via GBIF · IUCN
Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Critically Endangered
- taxon name
- Eulemur flavifrons
- Commons category
- Eulemur flavifrons
- Commons gallery
- Eulemur flavifrons
- taxon common name
- Blauaugenmaki
- endemic to
- Madagascar
- sequenced genome URL
- www.dnazoo.org/assemblies/Eulemur_flavifrons
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Encyclopedic overview
The blue-eyed black lemur (Eulemur flavifrons), also known as the Sclater's lemur, is a species of true lemur. It can attain a body length of 39–45 cm (15–18 in), a tail length of 51–65 cm (20–26 in), a total length of 90–100 cm (35–39 in), and a weight of 1.8–1.9 kg (4.0–4.2 lb). Being a primate, it has strong hands with palms like a human, which have a rubbery texture to give it a firm grip on branches. Its tail is longer than its body and is non-prehensile.
Like many of the species in the genus Eulemur, the blue-eyed black lemur is sexually dichromatic. Males are solid black in color, with the hairs sometimes tinged brown at the roots. Females are reddish-brown in color with their underside and outline of their face a lighter tan. They have a dark brown or gray muzzle and the back of their hands and feet are a similar dark color. Both sexes have blue eyes, hence the common name, and are one of the only primates other than humans to consistently have blue eyes. The eyes can range in color from a shocking electric blue, a light sky-blue, or a softer gray-blue.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eulemur flavifrons” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.