''Tarsius'' is a genus of

tarsier Tarsiers ( ) are haplorhine primates of the family Tarsiidae, which is itself the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes. Although the group was once more widespread, all of its species living today are found in Maritime Southe ...

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primate Primates are a diverse order (biology), order of mammals. They are divided into the Strepsirrhini, strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the Haplorhini, haplorhines, which include the Tarsiiformes, tarsiers and ...

s native to islands of

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. Until 2010, all tarsier species were typically assigned to this genus, but a revision of the family

Tarsiidae Tarsiers ( ) are haplorhine primates of the family Tarsiidae, which is itself the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes. Although the group was once more widespread, all of its species living today are found in Maritime Southe ...

restored the generic status of '' Cephalopachus'' and created a new genus '' Carlito''. All members of ''Tarsius'' are found on Sulawesi, while ''Cephalopachus'' is found on

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and ''Carlito'' in Greater

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Species

Colin Groves and Myron Shekelle's 2010 revision of the family Tarsiidae recognized the following eight or nine extant species of ''Tarsius'', being unsure as to whether ''T. pumilus'' was valid: *

Dian's tarsier Dian's tarsier (''Tarsius dentatus''), also known as the Diana tarsier, is a nocturnal primate endemic to central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its head-body length is and it has a tail of . Dian's tarsier lives in rainforests. It was formerly called ' ...

, ''T. dentatus'' * Makassar tarsier ''T. fuscus'' * Lariang tarsier, ''T. lariang'' * Peleng tarsier, ''T. pelengensis'' * Sangihe tarsier, ''T. sangirensis'' * Spectral tarsier, ''T. tarsier'' * Siau Island tarsier, ''T. tumpara'' *

Pygmy tarsier The pygmy tarsier (''Tarsius pumilus''), also known as the mountain tarsier or the lesser spectral tarsier, is a nocturnal primate found in central Sulawesi, Indonesia, in an area with lower vegetative species diversity than the lowland tropi ...

, ''T. pumilus'' *

Wallace's tarsier Wallace's tarsier, ''Tarsius wallacei'', is a species of Sulawesi tarsier (all tarsiers from the genus tarsius are from Sulawesi and its surrounding islands). It is found in the forests of what is referred to geologically as the neck of Sulawe ...

, ''T. wallacei'' The following two species were described by Shekelle Groves, and colleagues in 2017: *

Gursky's spectral tarsier Gursky's spectral tarsier (''Tarsius spectrumgurskyae'') is a species of tarsier found in the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. A recent taxonomic revision split this species off from the spectral tarsier and other tarsier species based on differ ...

, ''T. spectrumgurskyae'' * Jatna's tarsier, ''T. supriatnai'' In 2019 another species was described by Shekelle and colleagues:Myron Shekelle, Colin P. Groves, Ibnu Maryanto, Russell A. Mittermeier, Agus Salim und Mark S. Springer: ''A New Tarsier Species from the Togean Islands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, with References to Wallacea and Conservation on Sulawesi.'' Primate Conservation 2019 (33), 2019, S. 1–
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/ref> * Niemitz's tarsier ''Tarsius niemitzi'' ,

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also recognizes the following additional extinct species: * '' Tarsius eocaenus'' * '' Tarsius sirindhornae''

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Mammals of Southeast Asia Tarsiers Primate genera Taxa named by Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr Taxa described in 1780 {{primate-stub