''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 ...

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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 Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

. Until 2010, all tarsier species were typically assigned to this genus, but a revision of the family Tarsiidae restored the generic status of ''

Cephalopachus Horsfield's tarsier (''Cephalopachus bancanus''), also known as the western tarsier, is the only species of tarsier in the genus ''Cephalopachus''. Named for American naturalist Thomas Horsfield, it occurs on Borneo, Sumatra and nearby islands a ...

'' and created a new genus '' Carlito''. All members of ''Tarsius'' are found on

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

, while ''Cephalopachus'' is found on

Sundaland Sundaland (also called Sundaica or the Sundaic region) is a biogeographical region of South-eastern Asia corresponding to a larger landmass that was exposed throughout the last 2.6 million years during periods when sea levels were lower. It ...

and ''Carlito'' in Greater

Mindanao Mindanao ( ) ( Jawi: مينداناو) is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the island is part of an island group of ...

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 Dian's tarsier (''Tarsius dentatus''), also known as the Diana tarsier, is a nocturnal primate endemic to central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its head-body length is and it has a tail of . Dian's tarsier lives in rainforests. It was formerly called ...

, ''T. dentatus'' *

Makassar tarsier The Makassar tarsier (''Tarsius fuscus'') is a species of tarsier. Its range is in Indonesia in the southwestern peninsula of the island of Sulawesi, near Makassar. At one point the taxon was downgraded to a junior synonym of the spectral ta ...

''T. fuscus'' *

Lariang tarsier The Lariang tarsier (''Tarsius lariang'') is a recently described tarsier occurring in the western part of the central core of Sulawesi. Six museum specimens of this species are known, two of which have been misidentified as the pygmy tarsier b ...

, ''T. lariang'' *

Peleng tarsier The Peleng tarsier (''Tarsius pelengensis''), or the Peleng Island tarsier, is a nocturnal primate found on the island of Peleng, just east of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Description Tarsiers are small, agile primates, adapted for climbing, leaping and ...

, ''T. pelengensis'' *

Sangihe tarsier The Sangihe tarsier (''Tarsius sangirensis''), also known as Sangihe Island tarsier, is a small primate found on Sangir Island, which is located about 200 kilometers north-east of the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. In 2008 a population of the ...

, ''T. sangirensis'' *

Spectral tarsier The spectral tarsier (''Tarsius spectrum'', also called ''Tarsius tarsier'') is a species of tarsier found on the island of Selayar in Indonesia. It is apparently less specialized than the Philippine tarsier or Horsfield's tarsier; for example, ...

, ''T. tarsier'' *

Siau Island tarsier The Siau Island tarsier (''Tarsius tumpara'') is a species of tarsier from the tiny volcanic island of Siau Island, Siau in Indonesia. The ''T. tumpara'' species is one of 14 species and 7 subspecies in the tarsier family called "Tarsiidae". They ...

, ''T. tumpara'' *

Pygmy tarsier The pygmy tarsier (''Tarsius pumilus''), also known as the mountain tarsier or the lesser spectral tarsier, is a nocturnal primate found in central Sulawesi, Indonesia, in an area with lower vegetative species diversity than the lowland tropica ...

, ''T. pumilus'' *

Wallace's tarsier Wallace's tarsier, ''Tarsius wallacei'', is a species of Sulawesi tarsier (all tarsiers from the genus tarsius are from Sulawesi and its surrounding islands). It is found in the forests of what is referred to geologically as the neck of Sula ...

, ''T. wallacei'' The following two species were described by Shekelle Groves, and colleagues in 2017: * Gursky's spectral tarsier, ''T. spectrumgurskyae'' *

Jatna's tarsier The Jatna’s tarsier (''Tarsius supriatnai''), also known locally as the mimito, is a species of tarsier endemic to the northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Previously classified together with the Spectral tarsier, this species was reclassified and ...

, ''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 Niemitz's tarsier (''Tarsius niemitzi'') is a species of tarsier. It was named in honor of the German evolutionary biologist Carsten Niemitz in 2019. The species is found on an archipelago off the coast of Sulawesi called the Togian Islands ...

''Tarsius niemitzi'' ,

Fossilworks Fossilworks is a portal which provides query, download, and analysis tools to facilitate access to the Paleobiology Database The Paleobiology Database is an online resource for information on the distribution and classification of fossil animals ...

also recognizes the following additional extinct species: * ''

Tarsius eocaenus ''Tarsius'' is a genus of tarsiers, small primates native to islands of Southeast Asia. Until 2010, all tarsier species were typically assigned to this genus, but a revision of the family Tarsiidae restored the generic status of ''Cephalopachus' ...

'' * ''

Tarsius sirindhornae ''Tarsius'' is a genus of tarsiers, small primates native to islands of Southeast Asia. Until 2010, all tarsier species were typically assigned to this genus, but a revision of the family Tarsiidae restored the generic status of ''Cephalopachus' ...

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Mammals of Southeast Asia Tarsiers Primate genera Taxa named by Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr Taxa described in 1780 {{primate-stub