Chiromyiformes
Sign in to saveChiromyiformes is an infraorder of strepsirrhine primates that includes the aye-aye from Madagascar and its extinct relatives.
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It is catalogued under topics including EDGE species, Lemurs and Mammals of Madagascar.
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- Parent taxon
- Strepsirrhini
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- Aye aye.jpg
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- taxon name
- Chiromyiformes
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- infraorder
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- Chiromyiformes
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Chiromyiformes is an infraorder of strepsirrhine primates that includes the aye-aye from Madagascar and its extinct relatives.
==Classification== thumb|right|220px|Aye-Aye skeleton The aye-aye is sometimes classified as a member of Lemuriformes, but others treat Chiromyiformes as a separate infraorder, based on their very reduced dental formula. Gunnell et al. (2018) reclassified the putative bat Propotto as a close relative of the aye-aye, as well as assigning the problematic strepsirrhine primate Plesiopithecus to Chiromyiformes.
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