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Eulemur fulvus, Common Brown Lemur
Dr. James Rossie - Stony Brook University
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National Museum of Natural History (USNM 63339)

Image processing: Dr. Amy Balanoff
Publication Date: 03 Feb 2003

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About the Species

This male specimen was collected in Madagascar on the 19 April 1895 by W.L. Abbott. It was made available to The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility for scanning by Dr. James Rossie of Stony Brook University, courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Division of Mammals. Scanning was funded by an NSF dissertation improvement grant to Mr. Rossie (#0100825). Funding for image processing was provided by a National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative grant to Dr. Timothy Rowe of The University of Texas at Austin.

About this Specimen

This specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 15 July 2002 along the coronal axis for a total of 496 slices. Each slice is 0.018796 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.018796 mm and a field of reconstruction of 65.0 mm.

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Literature

Ankel-Simons, F. 2000. Primate anatomy: an introduction, 2nd ed. Academic Press, San Diego, 506pp.

Del Pero, M., S. Crovella, P. Cervella, G. Ardito, and Y. Rumpler. 1995. Phylogenetic relationships among Malagasy lemurs as revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis. Primates 36:431-440.

Pastorini, J., M.R.J. Forstner, and R.D. Martin. 2000. Relationships among brown lemurs (Eulemur fulvus) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 16:418-429.

Wyner, Y., R. DeSalle, and R. Absher. 2000. Phylogeny and character behavior in the family Lemuridae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 15:124-134.

Wyner, Y., R. Absher, G. Amato, E. Sterling, R. Stumpf, Y. Rumpler, and R. DeSalle. 1999. Species concepts and the determination of historic gene flow patterns in the Eulemur fulvus (Brown Lemur) complex. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 66:39-56.

Links

Eulemur fulvus on the Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan)

Eulemur fulvus on Duke University's Primate Center Website

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To cite this page: Dr. James Rossie, 2003, "Eulemur fulvus" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed April 25, 2024 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Eulemur_fulvus_fulvus/.

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