Tarsius
Tarsius[1] Temporal range: 48.6–0 Ma
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Family: | Tarsiidae |
Genus: | Tarsius Storr, 1780 |
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Lemur tarsier Erxleben, 1777
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Tarsius is a genus of tarsiers, small primates native to islands of Southeast Asia. Until 2010, all tarsier species were typically assigned to this genus, but a revision of the family Tarsiidae restored the generic status of Cephalopachus and created a new genus Carlito.[1]
All members of Tarsius are found on Sulawesi, while Cephalopachus is found on Sundaland and Carlito in Greater Mindanao.
Species[]
Colin Groves and Myron Shekelle's 2010 revision of the family Tarsiidae recognized the following eight or nine extant species of Tarsius, being unsure as to whether T. pumilus was valid:
- Dian's tarsier, T. dentatus Miller & Hollister, 1921
- Makassar tarsier T. fuscus Fischer, 1804
- Lariang tarsier, T. lariang Merker & Groves, 2006
- Peleng tarsier, T. pelengensis Sody, 1949
- Sangihe tarsier, T. sangirensis Meyer, 1897
- Spectral tarsier, T. tarsier (Erxleben, 1777)
- Siau Island tarsier, T. tumpara Shekelle et al., 2008
- Pygmy tarsier, T. pumilus Miller & Hollister, 1921
- Wallace's tarsier, T. wallacei Merker et al., 2010
The following two species were described by Shekelle Groves, and colleagues in 2017:[2]
- Gursky's spectral tarsier, T. spectrumgurskyae Shekelle et al., 2017
- Jatna's tarsier, T. supriatnai Shekelle et al., 2017
In 2019 another species was described by Shekelle and colleagues:[3]
- Niemitz's tarsier Tarsius niemitzi
As of 2018, Fossilworks also recognizes the following additional extinct species:[4]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Groves, C.; Shekelle, M. (2010). "The Genera and Species of Tarsiidae". International Journal of Primatology. 31 (6): 1071–1082. doi:10.1007/s10764-010-9443-1.
- ^ Shekelle, Myron; Groves, Colin P.; Maryanto, Ibnu; Mittermeier, Russell A. (2017). "Two New Tarsier Species (Tarsiidae, Primates) and the Biogeography of Sulawesi, Indonesia" (PDF). Primate Conservation. 31: 61–69.
- ^ Myron Shekelle, Colin P. Groves, Ibnu Maryanto, Russell A. Mittermeier, Agus Salim und Mark S. Springer: A New Tarsier Species from the Togean Islands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, with References to Wallacea and Conservation on Sulawesi. Primate Conservation 2019 (33), 2019, S. 1–9 PDF
- ^ Tarsius Storr 1780 (tarsier) at fossilworks.org (retrieved November 24, 2018)
- ^ Beard, K. Christopher; Qi, Tao; Dawson, Mary R.; Wang, Banyue; Li, Chuankuei (1994). "A diverse new primate fauna from middle Eocene fissure-fillings in southeastern China". Nature. 368 (6472): 607. doi:10.1038/368604a0. PMID 8145845.
- ^ Chaimanee, Y.; Lebrun, R.; Yamee, C.; Jaeger, J.-J. (2010). "A new Middle Miocene tarsier from Thailand and the reconstruction of its orbital morphology using a geometric-morphometric method". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 278 (1714): 1956–1963. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2062. PMC 3107645. PMID 21123264.
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- Mammals of Southeast Asia
- Tarsiers
- Primate genera
- Taxa named by Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr
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