Pariente's Fork-crowned Lemur

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name = Pale Fork-crowned LemurMSW3 Groves | pages = 114]
status = VU
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Ganzhorn, J. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group | year = 2000 | title = Phaner furcifer ssp. parienti | id = 16874 | downloaded = 2007-03-25]
image_width = 200px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cheirogaleidae
genus = "Phaner"
species = "P. parienti"
binomial = "Phaner parienti"
binomial_authority = Groves and Tattersall, 1991The Pariente's Fork-crowned Lemur ("Phaner parienti") is a species of lemur endemic to the Sambirano region of north-western Madagascar. This lemur has light brown to gray upperparts, a prominent facial fork and dorsal stripe that runs from the tail's tip to the point where it splits on the lemur's head to rejoin at the nose, and a white-tipped tail. It is found in lowland and mid-altitude humid forests and is nocturnal. It is an omnivore, eating tree gum, sap, bud exudes, insects and larvae. It sleeps in nests that have been abandoned by other lemurs, particularly Coquerel's Giant Mouse Lemur. This species is relatively unknown, though it is threatened by habitat destruction. It used to be considered a subspecies of the Eastern Fork-marked Lemur ("Phaner furcifer"). [cite book | author = Garbutt, Nick | title = Mammals of Madagascar | location = New Haven | publisher = Yale Press | year = 1999]

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