Order Primates
Author
Colin P. Groves
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
243
277
book chapter
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Lepilemur
I. Geoffroy, 1851
.
Cat. Meth. Coll. Mamm. Ois. (Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris), Primates, p. 75
.
TYPE SPECIES:
Lepilemur mustelinus
I.
Geoffroy, 1851
.
SYNONYMS:
Galeocebus, Lepidilemur
;
Mixocebus,
Peters, 1874
.
COMMENTS: Revised by
Petter et al. (1977:274-318)
. Six of the seven species are known to be karyotypically distinct. Rumpier (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
.