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Taxon: Family Cheirogaleidae Gray, 1873 - dwarf lemurs and mouse lemurs (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (Gray, 1872[1873]) Rumpler, 1974
Original name:  Gray, 1872[1873]. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872: 849.
Subsequent rank:  Rumpler 1974. Rumpler, 1974: 867.

Types

Nominotypical taxon of: Cheirogaleoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1873
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Cheirogaleinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1873
Type: Cheirogaleus (Genus) Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812 Ref: E. Delson et al. (eds.), 2000: xxv. [inferred]

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: katmaki's

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: dwarf lemurs and mouse lemurs
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