Wet nose primates
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Clockwise from top left: Ring-tailed lemur , diademed sifaka , black and white Vari , Darwinius , giant small-eared galago , gray slender lory , gray mouse lemur , finger animal |
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É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire , 1812 |
The wet-nosed primates , wet-nosed monkeys or naked- nosed monkeys (Strepsirrhini or Strepsirhini) are related to the primates and are compared to the dry- nosed primates . Traditionally, however, they were grouped together with the Koboldmakis as half-apes .
General
Wet-nosed primates differ in a number of features from the other suborder, the dry-nosed primates. The name- giving difference is the nasal mirror (rhinarium), which is moist in these animals as in cats , which is also reflected in the better developed sense of smell. Further differences lie in the thumb , which can only be compared to the other fingers to a lesser extent, an existing cleaning claw on the second toe and other anatomical features. In addition, multiple births are more likely to occur in wet-nosed primates, while single births predominate in dry-nosed primates.
distribution
Five of the seven families live on the island of Madagascar . The other two are found in central and southern Africa and in South and Southeast Asia .
Systematics
A distinction is made between three recent partial orders:
- Partial order Chiromyiformes with only one species on Madagascar
- Finger animal ( Daubentonia madagascariensis )
- Partial order Lemurs (Lemuriformes) with four living and one extinct family, all in Madagascar
- Common Makis (Lemuridae)
- Cat lemurs (Cheirogaleidae)
- Weasel lemurs (Lepilemuridae)
- Indriiformes (Indriidae)
- Megaladapidae †
- Partial order Loriartig (Lorisiformes) with two families in Africa and Asia
Another group, the Adapiformes , includes a number of extinct species documented from North America and Eurasia from the Eocene to the Miocene .
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literature
- Thomas Geissmann : Comparative Primatology. Springer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-540-43645-6 .
- Ronald M. Nowak: Walker's Mammals of the World. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1999, ISBN 0-8018-5789-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geissmann: Comparative Primatology. 2003, p. 41.
- ↑ Gisela Grupe, Kerrin Christiansen, Inge Schröder, Ursula Wittwer-Ofen: Anthropologie: An introductory textbook . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2005, ISBN 3-540-21159-4 , pp. 5 .
- ^ Wolfgang Maier: Primates . In: Wilfried Westheide, Reinhard Rieger (Ed.): Special Zoology. Part 2: vertebrates or skulls . 1st edition. Spectrum Academic Publishing House (Elsevier), Heidelberg / Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8274-0307-3 , p. 553-573 , here p. 563 .
- ↑ Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level . Columbia University Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-231-11012-X , pp. 328 .