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Philippine tarsier climbing a tree. The tarsier is named for its elongated "tarsus" or ankle bone. [2]The genus Carlito is named after conservationist Carlito Pizarras. [3] The Philippine tarsier is known as mawumag in Cebuano and other Visayan languages, and magô in Waray, [4] [5] It is also known as mamag, magau, malmag, and magatilok-iok.
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 ...
Horsfield's tarsier. 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.
The infraorder Tarsiiformes consists of one extant family: Tarsiidae, containing fourteen species divided between three genera. Carlito and Cephalopachus each have a single species, and Tarsius contains the other twelve. Family Tarsiidae. Genus Carlito (Philippine tarsier): one species. Genus Cephalopachus (Horsfield's tarsier): one species.
Tarsiiformes / ˈtɑːrsi.ɪfɔːrmiːz / are a group of primates that once ranged across Europe, northern Africa, Asia, and North America, but whose extant species are all found in the islands of Southeast Asia. Tarsiers (family Tarsiidae) are the only living members of the infraorder; other members of Tarsiidae include the extinct Tarsius ...
Slow lorises are a group of several species of nocturnal strepsirrhine primates that make up the genus Nycticebus.Found in Southeast Asia and bordering areas, they range from Bangladesh and Northeast India in the west to the Sulu Archipelago in the Philippines in the east, and from Yunnan province in China in the north to the island of Java in the south.
Aside from the common basal characteristics shared amongst all tarsier species (disproportionately enlarged eyes and ears, elongated tarsal bones, and the ability to rotate their heads 180 degrees in both directions), Jatna's tarsiers possess a very similar morphology to Gursky's spectral tarsiers, except with a generally larger bare spot at the base of its ear, a less shortened hind foot, a ...
The statement under "Etymology and taxonomic history" that the Philippine Tarsier "... is considered to be the mammal with the biggest eyes" doesn't pass the smell test. The whole animal is only about the size of a human fist, so a horse or a cow almost certainly has eyes much, much larger than that of a Tarsier!