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Taxon: Subfamily Cheirogaleinae Gray, 1873 (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Primates - (Family) Cheirogaleidae

Subsequent positions

Cheirogaleidae (Family) Gray, 1873

Original entries

Questionably Allocebus (Genus) Petter-Rousseaux & Petter, 1967

Subsequent entries

*Cheirogaleus* (Genus) Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812
*Microcebus* (Genus) Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1834

Current position

Cheirogaleidae (Family) Gray, 1873

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 334.

Alternative positions

Lemuridae (Family) Gray, 1821

Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1031.

Historical positions

*Cheirogaleidae* (Family) Gray, 1873	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 334.
*Cheirogaleidae* (Family) Gray, 1873	Ref: C.P. Groves, 1993: 243.
*Lemuridae* (Family) Gray, 1821	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1031.
*Lemuridae* (Family) Gray, 1821	Ref: W. Fiedler et al., 1973: 618.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	4g;26s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	4g;26s
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[3g]
1993	C.P. Groves	[3g;6s]
1982	A.F. DeBlase	2g;6s

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Last updated: 1 Feb 2024