Avahi Jourdan 1834

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 : 119

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Avahi Jourdan 1834

Avahi Jourdan 1834 , L'Institut, Paris, 2: 231.

Type Species: Lemur laniger Gmelin 1788

Synonyms: Habrocebus Wagner 1839 ; Iropocus Gloger 1841 ; Microrhynchus Jourdan 1834 ; Semnocebus Lesson 1840 .

Species and subspecies: 3 species:

Species Avahi laniger (Gmelin 1788)

Species Avahi occidentalis von Lorenz-Liburnau 1898

Species Avahi unicolor Thalmann and Geissmann 2000

Discussion: Lichanotus has commonly been used for this genus, but see Jenkins (1987:55). Revised in part by Thalmann and Geissmann (2000).

Jenkins, P. D. 1987. Catalogue of Primates in the British Museum (Natural History) and elsewhere in the British Isles. Part 4: Suborder Strepsirrhini, including the subfossil Madagasan lemurs and family Tarsiidae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 189 pp.

Lesson, R. P. 1840. Species es mammiferes bimanes et quadrimanes ... Bailliere, London, 292 pp.

Thalmann, U., and T. Geissmann. 2000. Distribution and geographic variation in the western woolly lemur (Avahi occidentalis) with description of a new species (A. unicolor). International Journal of Primatology, 21: 915 - 941.

Wagner, J. A. 1839. Die Saugethiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Supplement 1. Weigel, Leipzig, 551 pp.