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bn:00064813n

Noun Concept

Categories: Paraphyletic groups, Taxa named by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Obsolete primate taxa

prosimian Prosimia prosimians Prosimii

Primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits WordNet 3.0

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Primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Prosimians are a group of primates that includes all living and extinct strepsirrhines, as well as the haplorhine tarsiers and their extinct relatives, the omomyiforms, i.e. all primates excluding the simians. Wikipedia

Obsolete taxonomic group Wikidata

A primate that is not a monkey or an ape, generally nocturnal with large eyes and ears. Such primates were formerly grouped in the suborder Prosimii, but are now considered a paraphyletic group and not a clade. Wiktionary

Primate suborder. Wiktionary (translation)

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primate

taxonomic group

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Prosimii

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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

PARENT TAXON

primate

WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

prosimian