Lepilemur mustelinus

Animalia, Lepilemuridae, NT

Lepilemur mustelinus is a large sportive lemur with a head-body length of 26–30 cm, a tail length of 25–29 cm, a total length of 51–59 cm, and a weight of about 1 kg (Harcourt and Thornback, 1990; Louis et al., 2006b; Garbutt, 2007; Lei et al., 2008). The fur is rather long and dense, being a variable chestnut-brown dorsally, and often with a dark midline stripe. The face is gray or brown, the cheeks, throat and abdomen a bit lighter. The tail darkens toward the tip. There are also cases of bright orange L. mustelinus with populations of naturally colored members of these species. See, for example, Figure 8.16, which depicts an individual from the Anamalazaotra Special Reserve at Andasibe (G. Davies, pers. comm.). This species is most likely to be confused with the similar-sized Avahi, which also adopts a vertical clinging posture, and to a lesser extent with Cheirogaleus, which moves about quadrupedally. \([\dots]\) https://lemursofmadagascar.com

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Current distribution

N. of observation used in the models

  N = 84

  Species distribution area

  SDA = 50 613 km\(^2\)

 

  Model performance

	ROC	OA	TSS
Value	0.99	0.91	0.88

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Climatic niche

Climatic and altitudinal range

 

	temp	prec	tseas	pseas	cwd	foret	alt
Mean	207	1703	2450	75	123	77	755
2.5%	165	787	2009	41	5	20	21
97.5%	260	2699	2803	130	817	100	1559

Variable importance

	GLM	GAM	RF	MaxE	ANN	mrank	rank
temp	0.03	0.06	0.24	0.01	0.52	4.60	6
prec	0.31	0.43	0.22	0.18	0.24	4.20	4
tseas	0.30	0.47	0.33	0.24	0.41	3.20	2
pseas	0.19	0.72	0.23	0.01	0.55	3.50	3
cwd	0.12	0.37	0.45	0.01	0.49	4.30	5
foret	0.74	0.70	0.54	0.81	0.74	1.20	1

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Vulnerability to climate change

Full dispersal

  RCP : 85, Year : 2080

 

Zero dispersal

  RCP : 85, Year : 2080

 

Scenarios

	RCP	Year	Disp	Area	Change
1	45	2080	full	62 672	24
2	45	2080	zero	47 799	-6
3	85	2080	full	87 081	72
4	85	2080	zero	39 713	-22

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