Strepsirrhini

Strepsirhines

<tr><th bgcolor=pink>Scientific classification <tr><td>

<tr><td>Kingdom:<td>Animalia <tr><td>Phylum:<td>Chordata <tr><td>Class:<td>Mammalia <tr><td>Order:<td>Primates <tr><td>Suborder:<td>Strepsirrhini </table> <tr><th bgcolor=pink>Families <tr><td> Cheirogaleidae
Lemuridae
Megaladapidae
Indridae
Daubentoniidae (Aye-aye)
Loridae
Galagonidae </table> The Strepsirrhini clade is one of the two suborders of primates. Madagascar's only primates are strepsirrhines, although others can be found in southeast Asia. The suborder is composed of seven families split into two groups. The first group contains the infraorder Lemuriformes, four families of creatures typically called lemurs. The other three families include all of the lorises, plus the galagos, the Aye-aye, and the pottos. However, the Aye-aye is considered an outgroup in this clade and is given its own infraorder (Chiromyiformes). The remaining two families make up the infraorder Loriformes.

Classification

Early classification scheme broke the Primate order into the suborders Prosimii and Anthropoidea. Prosimii contained all of Strepsirrhini and the tarsiers. However the tarsiers have been shown to bemore closely related to the simians, and so it has been moved into the Anthropoidea, which is now renamed as Haplorrhini.

The adapids are an extinct polyphyletic grouping that were most certainly prosimians and closely related to the strepsirhines. The omomyids are another extinct group of prosmians but they are believed to be haplorrhines, closely related to the tarsiers, but an outgroup to the rest of the haplorrhines.

ORDER PRIMATES
- Suborder Strepsirrhini: non-tarsier prosimians
  - Infraorder Lemuriformes
    - Superfamily Cheirogaleoidea
      - Family Cheirogaleidae: dwarf and mouse lemurs
    - Superfamily Lemuroidea
      - Family Lemuridae: lemurs
      - Family Megaladapidae: sportive lemurs
      - Family Indridae: woolly lemurs and allies
  - Infraorder Chiromyiformes
    - Family Daubentoniidae: Aye-aye
  - Infraorder Loriformes
    - Family Loridae: lorises, pottos and allies
    - Family Galagonidae: galagos
- Suborder Haplorrhini: tarsiers, monkeys and apes

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