Two new species of lemur discovered - one named after former
Chair of the SSC's Conservation Breeding Specialist Group 14
January 2005 | News story IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, 14 January
2005 - Officials at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo (USA) announced the
coming publication in the December 2005 issue (volume 26, no. 6)
of the International Journal of Primatology the discovery of two
new species of Sportive Lemur. The species are described by Dr.
Edward Louis, head of the Genetics Department of the Grewcock
Center for Conservation and Research Center at the zoo. The two
new species are located in very different forest types – in the
rain forest of the east coast and in the dry forest of the west
coast. The west coast species, Mitsinjo Sportive Lemur or
Lepilemur mitsinjonensis, is named after the region. The east
coast species, Seal’s Sportive Lemur or Lepilemur seali, is
named in honour of Ulysses S. Seal III, former chairman of the
Species Survival Commission’s Conservation Breeding Specialist
Group (CBSG). This i