Lemur
Appearance

Taxonavigation
[edit]Familia: Lemuridae
Genus: Lemur
Species (1): L. catta
Name
[edit]Lemur Linnaeus, 1758: 29 [conserved name]
- Type species: Lemur catta Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Thomas (1911: 129).
- Gender: masculine.
- Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 122 (1931: 33) and Direction 24 (1955: 223).
Synonyms
[edit]- Catta Link, 1806
- Maki Muirhead, 1819
- Mococo Lesson, 1878
- Odorlemur Bolwig, 1961
- Procebus Storr, 1780
- Prosimia Boddaert, 1785.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page.
- Thomas, O. 1911. The Mammals of the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus; an Attempt to fix the Types of the Genera and the exact Bases and Localities of the Species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 81(1): 120–158. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1911.tb06995.x BHL Reference page.
- International Commisision on Zoological Nomenclature. 1931. Opinion 122. Seven Generic Names in Primates Adopted in the Official List of Generic Names. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(7): 33. BHL Reference page.
- International Commisision on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Direction 24. Completion of the entries relating to the names of certain genera in the class Mammalia made on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1C: 219–246. BHL Reference page.
Vernacular names
[edit]- Deutsch: Katta
- English: Ring-tailed Lemur
- français: Maki
- 日本語: ワオキツネザル属
- Malagasy: Maky, Hira
- polski: lemur
- 中文: 環尾狐猴