#0356 · 🦊 mammals
Ring-tailed Lemur
🇳🇱 Ringstaartmaki ·Lemur catta
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Tambako The Jaguar · CC BY-ND 4.0
- 2. © Cloudtail the Snow Leopard · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Tambako The Jaguar · CC BY-ND 4.0
- 4. © Tommy Hui · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © sammatey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Linda Reinhold · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Anosy, MG-TL, MG:© George Williams · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Anosy, MG-TL, MG:© David Robichaud · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Texas, US:© Dan Walker · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Ihorombe, MG-FI, MG:© rudi-diesel · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The ring-tailed lemur ( Lemur catta ) is a large strepsirrhine primate and the most recognized lemur due to its long, black and white ringed tail. It belongs to Lemuridae, one of five lemur families, and is the only member of the Lemur genus. Like all lemurs it is endemic to the island of Madagascar. Known locally in Malagasy as maky ( ( listen), spelled maki in French) or hira , it inhabits gallery forests to spiny scrub in the southern...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,048 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 60 g.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
- Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Ring-tailed Lemur
- Nederlands
- Ringstaartmaki
- scientific name
- Lemur catta
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Primates
- family
- Lemuridae
- IUCN Red List
- EN · endangered
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,048
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 60 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43617, Wikidata Q185385, GBIF 2436412, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.