Indri indri

– Endangered

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

PRIMATES

Family:

INDRIDAE

Scientific Name:

Indri indri

Species Authority:

(Gmelin, 1788)

Common Name/s:

English	—	INDRI
French	—	INDRI À QUEUE COURTE, INDRI
Spanish	—	INDRI COLICORTO

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

EN A1c+2c ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

2000

Assessor/s:

Ganzhorn, J. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group

Evaluator/s:

Mittermeier, R.A., Konstant, W.R. & Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority)

History:

1965	-	"Very rare and believed to be decreasing in numbers" (Scott 1965)
1986	-	Endangered (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Endangered (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Endangered (Harcourt and Thornback 1990)
1990	-	Endangered (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Endangered (Groombridge 1994)
1996	-	Endangered (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Madagascar

Population

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

List of Habitats:

1.5	Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry

Threats

List of Threats:

1	Habitat Loss/Degradation (human induced) (ongoing)
3	Harvesting (hunting/gathering) (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Harcourt, C. and Thornback, J. 1990. Lemurs of Madagascar and the Comoros. The IUCN Red Data Book. IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland.

Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Mace, G.M. and Balmford, A. 2000. Patterns and processes in contemporary mammalian extinction. In: A. Entwhistle and N. Dunstone (eds) Priorities for the Conservation of Mammalian Diversity. Has the Panda had its day?, pp. 27-52. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, London.

Torres de Assumpção, C. 1983. An ecological study of the primates of southeastern Brazil, with a reappraisal of Cebus apella races. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Citation:	Ganzhorn, J. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group 2000. Indri indri. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 August 2008.
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