Chiromyiformes
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Chiromyiformes is an infraorder of strepsirrhine primates that includes the aye-aye from Madagascar and its extinct relatives.
Classification
File:Aye-Aye Daubentonia madagascariensis in Stockholm.jpg
The aye-aye is sometimes classified as a member of Lemuriformes, but others treat Chiromyiformes as a separate infraorder, based on their very reduced dental formula.Birx, James, 2010. 21st Century Anthropology. SAGE Publications. Gunnell et al. (2018) reclassified the putative bat Propotto as a close relative of the aye-aye, as well as assigning the problematic strepsirrhine primate Plesiopithecus to Chiromyiformes.Gregg F. Gunnell; Doug M. Boyer; Anthony R. Friscia; Steven Heritage; Fredrick Kyalo Manthi; Ellen R. Miller; Hesham M. Sallam; Nancy B. Simmons; Nancy J. Stevens; Erik R. Seiffert (2018). "Fossil lemurs from Egypt and Kenya suggest an African origin for Madagascar's aye-aye". Nature Communications. 9: Article number 3193. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05648-w.
Evolution
The molecular clock puts the divergence of Chiromyiformes and Lemuriformes at 50-49 million years ago.Springer MS, Meredith RW, Gatesy J, Emerling CA, Park J, Rabosky DL, et al. (2012) Macroevolutionary Dynamics and Historical Biogeography of Primate Diversification Inferred from a Species Supermatrix. PLoS ONE 7(11): e49521. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049521
References
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External links
- [http://members.tripod.com/uakari/ayeaye.html Primate Behavior: Aye-Aye]
- ARKive – [https://web.archive.org/web/20040515181411/http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Daubentonia_madagascariensis/ images and movies of the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)]
- [http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/aye-aye Primate Info Net Daubentonia madagascariensis Factsheet]
- [http://ecos.fws.gov/species_profile/servlet/gov.doi.species_profile.servlets.SpeciesProfile?spcode=A00P U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Species Profile]
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