Order Primates
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1
111
184
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316519
STREPSIRRHINI E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
Families:
7 families with 23 genera and 88 species in 3 infraorders:
Infraorder
LEMURIFORMES
Gray 1821
Family
Cheirogaleidae Gray 1872
(5 genera with 21 species)
Family
Lemuridae
Gray 1821
(5 genera with 19 species and 7 subspecies)
Family
Lepilemuridae
Gray 1870
(1 genus with 8 species)
Family
Indridae Burnett 1828
(3 genera with 11 species and 6 subspecies)
Infraorder
CHIROMYIFORMES Anthony and Coupin 1931
Family
Daubentoniidae Gray 1863
(1 genus with 1 species)
Infraorder
LORISIFORMES Gregory 1915
Family
Lorisidae
Gray 1821
(5 genera with 9 species and 10 subspecies)
Family
Galagidae
Gray 1825
(3 genera with 19 species and 14 subspecies)
Discussion:
McKenna and Bell (1997)
divide the
Strepsirrhini
into superfamilies Daubentonioidea, Lemuroidea, Loroidea (including
Cheirogaleidae
) and Indroidea. Evidence that
Cheirogaleidae
is not related to lorises, and that
Indridae
is sister-group to
Lemuridae
, is given by
Groves (2001
c
)
.