Daubentonia is the sole genus of the family Daubentoniidae, a lineage of lemuriform primates native to Madagascar. Its only living species is the aye-aye, Daubentonia madagascariensis; a second species, the giant aye-aye (Daubentonia robusta), survived until within the last thousand years before going extinct. The genus was named by Gray in 1863 and belongs to the strepsirrhine superfamily Lemuroidea. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Classification
Living or Extinct Taxonomic Rank In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Madagascar, found in there.
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1. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ2899669, descriptionView the Source 2. Daubentonia (Wikipedia)
Introduction
Daubentonia is the sole genus of the Daubentoniidae, a family of lemuroid primate native to much of Madagascar.
- Taxonomic rank (structure-wave classification, ruling 761/926)
View the SourceWikidata: Daubentoniidae
Wikidata Q2899669, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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