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The Philippine tarsier's habitat is the second-growth, secondary forest, and primary forest from sea level to 700 m (2,300 ft). [18] Its habitat also includes tropical rainforest with dense vegetation and trees that offer it protection such as tall grasses, bushes, and bamboo shoots. It prefers dense, low-level vegetation in secondary forests ...
On April 17, 1996, the Philippine Tarsier Foundation Inc. was registered with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission, with the following prominent Bohol residents listed as incorporators: the Rev. Florante Camacho, SVD, president of the Divine Word College of Tagbilaran; Anos Fonacier, municipal councilor of Panglao, Bohol and resort operator; and Col. (Ret.) Zosimo Angan, businessman.
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 ...
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.
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]
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.
Preferred habitat IUCN status Range Family Lorisidae: lorises: Philippine slow loris: Nycticebus menagensis Lydekker, 1893: Lowland forest VU: Family Tarsiidae: tarsiers: Philippine tarsier: Carlito syrichta Linnaeus, 1758: Forest NT: Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys: Crab-eating macaque: Macaca fascicularis Raffles, 1821
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 ...