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Tarsiers are haplorhine primates of the family Tarsiidae, which is the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes. Although the group was prehistorically more globally widespread, all of th
Philippine tarsier Bohol 2
Combined Range of 9 Tarsier Species
Tarsier image inside Philippine National Museum of Natural History
Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta), one of the smallest primates
Philippine tarsier
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The Philippine tarsier is a species of tarsier endemic to the Philippines. It is found in the southeastern part of the archipelago, particularly on the islands of Bohol, Samar and Leyte. It is a membe
Tarsier
…synonym of T. tarsier. In 2010, Colin Groves and Myron Shekelle suggested splitting the genus Tarsius into three genera, the Philippine tarsiers (genus Carlito), the western tarsiers (genus Cephalopachus), and the eastern tarsiers (genus Tarsius). This was based on differences in dentition, eye size, limb and…
Philippine tarsier Bohol
Philippine tarsier climbing a tree
Philippine tarsier, showing lower jaw dentition