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The Philippine tarsier has thin, rough fur which is colored gray to dark brown. The narrow tail, usually used for balance, is bald except for a tuft of hair at the end, and is about twice the body length. Its elongated "tarsus", or ankle bone, which gives the tarsier its name, allows it to jump at least 3 m (9.8 ft) from tree to tree. [13]
Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta), one of the smallest primates. At a lower phylogenetic level, the tarsiers have, until recently, all been placed in the genus Tarsius, [1] while it was debated whether the species should be placed in two (a Sulawesi and a Philippine -western group) or three separate genera (Sulawesi, Philippine and western ...
Horsfeld's tarsier ( Cephalopachus bancanus) is the only species of tarsier in the genus Cephalopachus. Named by American naturalist Thomas Horsfield, it is also referred to as western tarsier. The species occurs on Borneo, Sumatra and nearby islands and is, like other members of the group, entirely nocturnal. Cephalopachus bancanus saltator.
Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta) Tarsiiformes is an infraorder of small primates. It contains a single extant family, Tarsiidae, and members of this infraorder are called tarsiiformes, with members of the family named tarsiers. Tarsiiformes is one of the six major groups in the order Primates.
Tarsius spectrumgurskyae. Tarsius supriatnai. Tarsius niemitzi. Tarsius is a genus of tarsiers, small primates native to islands of Southeast Asia. Until 2010, all tarsier species were typically assigned to this genus, but a revision of the family Tarsiidae restored the generic status of Cephalopachus and created a new genus Carlito. [ 1]
Musser, Heaney & Rabor, 1985. Range in pink. The Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat, Dinagat crateromys or Dinagat cloud rat (Crateromys australis) is a species of cloud rat in the family Muridae. It is one of the eight cloud rats found only in the Philippines, and is specifically endemic to Dinagat Island. It is known locally as hawili. [2]
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in the Philippines. Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates ... Philippine tarsier: Carlito syrichta Linnaeus, 1758:
Dian's tarsier (Tarsius dentatus), also known as the Diana tarsier, is a nocturnal primate endemic to central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its head-body length is 11.5–12 centimetres (4.5–4.7 in) and it has a tail of 22 centimetres (8.7 in). [3] Dian's tarsier lives in rainforests. [3] It was formerly called T. dianae, but that has been shown to be ...