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Primates
- Order within the Infraclass Eutheria
- Contains suborders Strepsirrhini and Haplorrhini
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Strepsirrhini
- Suborder within the Order Primate
- Contains the Family Lemuridae
- 1. Presence of tooth comb via lower incisions and canine teeth
- 2. Grooming claw on 2nd digit of left foot
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Lemuridae
- Family within the Suborders Strepsirrhini
- Lemurs
- 1. Braincase elongate
- 2. Upper incisors small, peg-like w/ median diastema
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Haplorrhini
- Suborder within the Order Primates
- 1. Orbit and temporal fossa separated by postorbital plate
- 2. Brainwash relatively large and rounded (as opposed to Lemuridae/Strepsirrhini)
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Cebidae
- Family within the Suborder Haplorrhini
- Includes families Aotidae, Atelidae,Pitheciidae
- New World monkeys
- 1. Auditory bulla not extending laterally as a bony tube
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Cercopithecidae
- Family within the Suborder Haplorrhini
- Macaques, baboons, langurs, leaf monkeys
- 1. Auditory bulla extending laterally as a bony tube
- 2. quadritubercular, bilophodont
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Hylobatidae
- Family within the Suborders Haplorrhini
- Gibbons and siamang
- 1. No sagittal crest
- 2. Auditory bulla extending laterally as a bony tube
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Hominidae
- Family within the Suborder Haplorrhini
- Great apes
- 1. Sagittal crest often prominent
- 2. Molars quadritubercular and bunodont with Y5 pattern of cusps
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Chiroptera
- Order within the Infraorder Eutheria
- Contains Families Pteropodidae, Phyllostomidae, Molossidae, Vespertillionidae
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Megachiroptera
- Suborders within the Order Chiroptera
- Contains the Family Pteropodidae
- 1. No tragus or antitragus
- 2. 2nd digit of forelimbs free of 3rd digit, usually with claw
- 3. Postorbital process large, forming a complete postorbital bar in some taxa
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Pteropodidae
- Family within the suborder Megachiroptera
- Flying foxes, Old World fruit bats
- 1. Tail usually short or absent
- 2. Rostrum long, doglike
- 3. premaxillae w/ palatial and nasal branches fused to each other
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Microchiroptera
Suborder within the Order Chiroptera
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Phyllostomidae
- Family within the Suborder Microchiroptera
- New World leaf-nosed or fruit bats
- 1. Leaf nose
- 2. Tragus present, small
- 3. premaxillae w/ nasal and palatal branches
- 4. 2 pairs of upper incisors
- 5. No postorbital process
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Molossidae
- Family within the Suborder Microchiroptera
- Free- tailed bats
- 1. 1st and 5th digits of hindfoot w/ fringe of stiff bristles
- 2. Tragus small or absent
- 3. hindlimb and hindfoot broad, short
- 4. Tail extending well beyond uropatagium
- 5. cheekteeth tritubercular
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Vespertilionidae
- Family within the suborder Microchiroptera
- Common bats
- 1. Tragus present, prominent
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