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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER PRIMATES
--> SUBORDER STREPSIRRHINI
--> INFRAORDER LEMURIFORMES
--> SUPERFAMILY Lemuroidea
--> FAMILY Lepilemuridae
GENUS Lepilemur
| Author: | I. Geoffroy, 1851. | | Citation: | Cat. Meth. Coll. Mamm. Ois. (Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris), Primates: 75. | | Type Species: | Lepilemur mustelinus I. Geoffroy, 1851. | | Comments: | Revised by Petter et al. (1977:274-318). Six of the seven species are known to be karyotypically distinct. Rumpler (1975) and Corbet and Hill (1980:83) placed this genus in a subfamily of Lemuridae. Petter and Petter (1977:6) placed it in its own family Lepilemuridae. Yoder et al. (1999) considered that Lepilemur is probably not, in fact, a member of the Megaladapidae, which is based on a subfossil genus. |
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