Cheirogaleidae Gray 1872

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Primates, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 111-184 : 111

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scientific name	Cheirogaleidae Gray 1872
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Treatment

Cheirogaleidae Gray 1872 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872: 849.

Genera: 5 genera with 21 species:

Genus Allocebus Petter-Rousseaux and Petter 1967 (1 species)

Genus Cheirogaleus E. Geoffroy 1812 (7 species)

Genus Microcebus E. Geoffroy 1834 (8 species)

Genus Mirza Gray 1870 (1 species)

Genus Phaner Gray 1870 (4 species)

Discussion: Formerly included in Lemuridae . For status of this taxon, see Rumpler (1975) and Groves (2001 c), who reviewed and rejected the hypothesis that they may be more closely related to (non-Malagasy) Loriformes than to (Malagasy) Lemuriformes .