Prosimian Photos

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Page 1: Cheirogaleus major lemur | Grey Bamboo Lemur | Indri lemur in Andasibe | White-footed lepilemur (Lepilemur leucopus) | Microcebus rufus (Brown mouse lemur) | Eulemur fulvus rufus | Ringtailed lemur (Lemur catta) eating with baby on back | Ring-tailed lemurs paddycake | Excited ring-tailed lemur | Leaping lemur | Sifaka lemur in "The Thinker" position | Sifaka just hanging out | Varecia variegata variegata | Black Lemurs, Madagascar | Ringtail Lemur, Madagascar | Ringtail Lemurs, Madagascar | Ringtail Lemur, Madagascar | Sifaka, Madagascar | Verreaux's Sifaka, Madagascar | Verreaux's Sifaka, Madagascar | Verreaux's Sifaka, Madagascar | Verreaux's Sifaka, Madagascar | Red-fronted brown lemur with baby on back at Kirindy | Red-fronted brown lemur | Red-fronted brown lemur (E. fulvus rufus) in tree | Ringtails on a mission | Mother lemur catta with baby on chest | Upside-down sifaka lemur | White ruffed lemur feeding on tamarind | Brown Lemur, Madagascar Page 2: Female Black Lemur, Madagascar | Male Black Lemur | Male Black Lemur | Diademed sifaka in Mantady NP | Greater Bamboo Lemur | Milne-Edwards Sifaka | Eulemur fulvus rufus in tree at Kirindy | Red ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata rubra) | White-fronted brown lemur | Red Ruffed Lemur | Red Ruffed Lemur | White Ruffed Lemurs | Brown Lemur, Madagascar | Indri Lemur, Madagascar

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More from Wikipedia.org:

Prosimians are the most primitive extant primates; they represent forms that were ancestral to monkeys, apes and humans. Prosimians are the only primates native to Madagascar, and are also found in Southeast Asia. With the exception of the tarsiers, all of the prosimians are in the suborder Strepsirrhini.

The adapids are an extinct grouping that were most certainly prosimians and closely related to the strepsirhines. The omomyids are another extinct group of prosmians but they are believed to be haplorrhines, closely related to the tarsiers, but an outgroup to the rest of the haplorrhines.

Classification

Although the prosimians were once considered a suborder of the Primate order (suborder Prosimii), they have been shown to be polyphyletic - that is, the smallest clade of related species that includes all of the prosimians also includes all of the primates. This relationship is shown by the bolded ranks in the list below of the current Primate classification between the order and family level.