''Tarsius'' is a genus of
tarsier
Tarsiers ( ) are haplorhine primates of the family Tarsiidae, which is itself the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes. Although the group was once more widespread, all of its species living today are found in Maritime Southeast ...
s, small
primate
Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...
s native to islands of
Southeast Asia
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. Until 2010, all tarsier species were typically assigned to this genus, but a revision of the family
Tarsiidae
Tarsiers ( ) are haplorhine primates of the family Tarsiidae, which is itself the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes. Although the group was once more widespread, all of its species living today are found in Maritime Southeast ...
restored the generic status of ''Cephalopachus'' and created a new genus ''Carlito (genus), Carlito''.
All members of ''Tarsius'' are found on Sulawesi, while ''Cephalopachus'' is found on Sundaland and ''Carlito'' in Greater Mindanao.
Species
Colin Groves and Myron Shekelle's 2010 revision of the family Tarsiidae recognized the following eight or nine extant species of ''Tarsius'', being unsure as to whether ''T. pumilus'' was valid:
* Dian's tarsier, ''T. dentatus''
*Makassar tarsier ''T. fuscus''
* Lariang tarsier, ''T. lariang''
* Peleng tarsier, ''T. pelengensis''
* Sangihe tarsier, ''T. sangirensis''
* Spectral tarsier, ''T. tarsier''
* Siau Island tarsier, ''T. tumpara''
* Pygmy tarsier, ''T. pumilus''
* Wallace's tarsier, ''T. wallacei''
The following two species were described by Shekelle Groves, and colleagues in 2017:
* Gursky's spectral tarsier, ''T. spectrumgurskyae''
* Jatna's tarsier, ''T. supriatnai''
In 2019 another species was described by Shekelle and colleagues:
[Myron Shekelle, Colin P. Groves, Ibnu Maryanto, Russell A. Mittermeier, Agus Salim und Mark S. Springer: ''A New Tarsier Species from the Togean Islands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, with References to Wallacea and Conservation on Sulawesi.'' Primate Conservation 2019 (33), 2019, S. 1–]
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*Niemitz's tarsier ''Tarsius niemitzi''
, Fossilworks also recognizes the following additional extinct species:
* ''Tarsius eocaenus''
* ''Tarsius sirindhornae''
References
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Mammals of Southeast Asia
Tarsiers
Primate genera
Taxa named by Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr
Taxa described in 1780
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