Lavasoa-Ambatotsirongorongo Mountains are a mountain chain in southern
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
. They are situated in the municipalities of
Sarasambo,
Ankaramena,
Ranopiso and
Analapatsy, 30 km west of
Fort Dauphin. They are composed of three peaks:
#Grand Lavasoa (823 meters or 2700 feet)
#Petit Lavasoa (617 meters or 2024 feet)
#Ambatotsirongorongo (438 meters or 1437 feet)
The
Lavasoa dwarf lemur (''Cheirogaleus lavasoensis''), a small,
nocturnal
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Nocturnal creatures generally have ...
strepsirrhine
Strepsirrhini or Strepsirhini (; ) is a Order (biology), suborder of primates that includes the Lemuriformes, lemuriform primates, which consist of the lemurs of Fauna of Madagascar, Madagascar, galagos ("bushbabies") and pottos from Fauna of A ...
primate
Primates are a diverse order (biology), order of mammals. They are divided into the Strepsirrhini, strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the Haplorhini, haplorhines, which include the Tarsiiformes, tarsiers and ...
and a
species
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of
lemur
Lemurs ( ) (from Latin ''lemures'' – ghosts or spirits) are wet-nosed primates of the superfamily Lemuroidea (), divided into 8 families and consisting of 15 genera and around 100 existing species. They are endemic to the island of Madaga ...
was discovered in the 21st century. The primate,
endemic
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to three small, isolated patches of forest on the southern slopes of the Lavasoa Mountains was named after the mountain itself.
References
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Mountain ranges of Madagascar