Cheirogaleidae (family)
Esquema
Jerarquía
Eukaryota (domain) > Animalia (kingdom) > Chordata (phylum) > Vertebrata (subphylum) > Mammalia (class) > Primates (order) > Lemuriformes (infraorder)
Descripción
Family containing five genera, with 25 or more living species of dwarf, mouse, and fork-crowned lemurs, all from Madagascar, including the smallest living primates. The number of species cannot be precisely given, as new species continue to be discovered; they date from the Holocene.
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Otros términos
- dwarf lemurs and mouse lemurs [en]