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Dec 12, 2021 · WEIGHT: 122 to 134 g (4.3 and 4.8 oz) for males. LIFESPAN: Up to 15 years. Horsfield’s tarsier (Cephalopachus bancanus) is endemic to the islands of Borneo, Sumatra, Bangka, Belitung, Kalimata and small surrounding islands. As with the Philippine tarsiers, the subspecies of C. bancanus have specific distributions which help to distinguish them:
Dec 1, 2010 · Tarsier. PIN welcomes primatologists who are working directly with species to send updates for our fact sheets any time, including sources. We also welcome all readers to send updates and sources for consideration: we will check with the experts before adding these updates. We advise readers to use our fact sheets as just one source of ...
The living tarsier is represented by three species— Tarsius spectrum, T. bancanus, and T. syrichta —distributed throughout the islands of southeast Asia. Historically, Tarsius has been considered a primate that is somehow intermediate between the lower lemurs and lorises and the higher anthropoids. There have been two major recent views of ...
Tarsier (Carlito syrichta), Bohol, Philippines. By mtoz, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The three genera of Tarsiidae; 1) Carlito, 2) Cephalopachus, and 3) Tarsius, and eighteen species living among the islands of southeast Asia, including Borneo, Sumatra, and some of the Philippines. Tarsiers are arboreal vertical climbers and leapers ...
May 25, 2013 · The only other recent nocturnal representative of Haplorhini is the tarsier (Fig. 1b). Tarsiers are small creatures with immense eyeballs occupying about 1/3 of the skull volume each. Tarsiers are small creatures with immense eyeballs occupying about 1/3 of the skull volume each.
Anthropoidea is the clade of all species, living or extinct, that are more closely related to living platyrrhines and catarrhines than to Tarsius. Similarly, Haplorhini is the clade of all species that are more closely related to Anthropoidea plus Tarsius than to living strepsirrhines. (Fig. 1 ).
The Lariang tarsier ( Tarsius lariang) is a recently described tarsier occurring in the western part of the central core of Sulawesi. Six museum specimens of this species are known, two of which have been misidentified as the pygmy tarsier before their correct identity came out. This species has been named after the Lariang River, an important ...
