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Avahi occidentalis (western wooly lemur)

Mammalia - Primates - Indriidae

Taxonomy

Avahi laniger occidentalis was named by von Lorenz-Liburnau (1898). It is extant.

It was recombined as Avahi occidentalis by Wilson and Reeder (2005).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1898	Avahi laniger occidentalis von Lorenz-Liburnau
2005	Avahi occidentalis Wilson and Reeder

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Euarchonta
order	Primates
suborder	Strepsirrhini	Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
infraorder	Lemuriformes	Gregory 1915
superfamily	Lemuroidea	(Mivart 1864)
family	Indriidae	Burnett 1828
genus	Avahi	Jourdan 1834
species	occidentalis	()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Avahi occidentalis von Lorenz-Liburnau 1898 [western wooly lemur]

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

arborealf

Diet:

folivoref

Diet 2:

frugivoref

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2005-08-22 16:53:54

Modified:

2005-08-22 18:53:54

Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979

Collections

No collection or age range data are available