Phaner Gray 1870

Phaner Gray 1870, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs, Fruit-eating Bats Brit. Mus.: 135.

Type Species: Lemur furcifer Blainville 1839

Species and subspecies: 4 species:

Species Phaner electromontis Groves and Tattersall 1991

Species Phaner furcifer (Blainville 1839)

Species Phaner pallescens Groves and Tattersall 1991

Species Phaner parienti Groves and Tattersall 1991

Discussion: Placed in a separate subfamily, Phanerinae, by Rumpler (1974) and by McKenna and Bell (1997); but the evidence that they are the sister clade to other Cheirogaleidae is incomplete. Groves and Tattersall (1991) described three new subspecies, which were raised to species rank by Groves (2001 c).