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Daubentoniidae

Mammalia - Primates - Daubentoniidae

Taxonomy
Daubentoniidae was named by Gray (1863). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Gunnell et al. (2018).

It was reranked as the superfamily Daubentonioidea by Cope (1889).

It was assigned to Taxeopoda by Cope (1889); to Indrioidea by Carroll (1988); to Primates by Nowak (1991); to Lemuriformes by Schwarz (1931), Poux and Douzery (2004) and Karanth et al. (2005); and to Chiromyiformes by Gunnell et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1863Daubentoniidae Gray
1889Daubentonioidea Cope p. 876
1931Daubentoniidae Schwarz p. 400
1988Daubentoniidae Carroll
1991Daubentoniidae Nowak
2004Daubentoniidae Poux and Douzery
2005Daubentoniidae Karanth et al. p. 5094
2018Daubentoniidae Gunnell et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
Euarchonta
orderPrimates
suborderStrepsirrhiniGeoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
infraorderLemuriformesGregory 1915
Chiromyiformes
familyDaubentoniidaeGray 1863
familyDaubentoniidaeGray 1863

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.

Fm. Daubentoniidae Gray 1863
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G. Daubentonia Geoffroy 1795 [aye aye]
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Daubentonia madagascariensis Gmelin 1788 [aye aye]
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Invalid names: Lemur psilodactylus Shaw 1800 [synonym]
Daubentonia robusta Lamberton 1934
Invalid names: Cheiromys Cuvier 1817 [synonym], Cheyromis Geoffroy 1803 [synonym], Chiromys Illiger 1811 [synonym], Myslemur Blainville 1846 [synonym], Myspithecus Blainville 1839 [synonym], Psilodactylus Oken 1816 [synonym], Scoleophagus Geoffroy 1785 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available