Niemitz's tarsier

Niemitz's tarsier is a tarsier named in 2019 for the German evolutionary biologist Carsten Niemitz. He and his student Alexandra Nietsch were the first to survey systematically the tarsiers of the Togian Islands and to identify their possible taxonomic distinctiveness, reportedly after a tip from an Indonesian government official, Rolex Lameanda. The species lives on the Togian Islands, an archipelago off the coast of Sulawesi in Central Sulawesi, where it is called bunsing locally, and Niemitz's tarsier has been suggested as its English common name. The IUCN Red List is thought to class it as endangered because of habitat loss.