Makassar tarsier | |
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Tarsius fuscus with newly born baby in Babul National Park | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Family: | Tarsiidae |
Genus: | Tarsius |
Species: | T. fuscus
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Binomial name | |
Tarsius fuscus G. Fischer, 1804
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The Makassar tarsier (Tarsius fuscus), also known locally as Balao Cengke,[2] is a species of tarsier. Its range is in Indonesia in the southwestern peninsula of the island of Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, near Makassar. At one point the taxon was downgraded to a junior synonym of the spectral tarsier (T. tarsier). However, when that species' range was restricted to the population on a single island near Sulawesi, this nomen was resurrected to contain the remainder of that species.[3]