Tarsii
Tarsius
Tarsiers
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Beard, K. C. 1998. A new genus of Tarsiidae Mammalia: Primates from the middle eocene of Shanxi Province, China, with notes on the historical biogeography of tarsiers. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 34:260-277.
Groves, C. P. 1998. Systematics of tarsiers and lorises. Primates 39:13–27.
MacKinnon, J. R., and K. S. MacKinnon,. 1980. The behaviour of wild spectral tarsiers. Int. J. Primatol.1:361–379.
Mein P. and L. Ginsburg. 1997. Les mammifères du gisement miocène inférieur de Li Mae Long, Thaïlande : systématique, biostratigraphie et paléoenvironnement. Geodiversitas 19(4):783–844.
Merker, S. NS C. P. Groves. 2006. Tarsius lariang: A new primate species from western central Sulawesi. International Journal of Primatology 27(2):465-485.
Musser, G. G., and M. Dagosto. 1987. The identity of Tarsius pumilus, a pygmy species endemic to the montane mossy forests of Central Sulawesi. Am. Mus.Novit.2867:1–53.
Niemitz, C., ed. 1984. Biology of Tarsiers. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart, New York.
Niemitz, C., A. Nietsch, S. Warter, and Y. Rumpler. 1991. Tarsius dianae: a new primate species from Central Sulawesi (Indonesia). Folia Primatol. 56:105–116.
Purvis, A. 1995. A composite estimate of primate phylogeny. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (Series B), 348:405-421.
Rasmussen, D.T., G.C. Conroy, and E.L. Simons. 1998. Tarsier-like locomotor specializations in the Oligocene primate Afrotarsius. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 95:14848-14850.
Rossie, J. B., X. J. Ni, and K. C. Beard. 2006. Cranial remains of an Eocene tarsier. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 103(12):4381-4385.
Wright, P. C.. E. L. Simons, and S. Gursky. 2003. Tarsiers. Past, Present, and Future. Rutgers University Press.
Shekelle, M., Leksono, S. M., Ichwan, L. L. S., and Masala, Y. (1997). The natural history of the tarsiers of North and Central Sulawesi. Sulawesi Primate Newsletter 4(2): 4–11.
Shekelle, M., Morales, J. C., and Melnick, D. (2001). Genetic and acoustic evolution among Eastern tarsiers of northern and central Sulawesi. Presented at the XVIIth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Adelaide, Australia,7–12January2001.
Information on the Internet
- ARKive: Dian's tarsier
- The Philippine Tarsier Foundation, Inc.
- Tarsiidae. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology Animal Diversity Web.
Title Illustrations

| Scientific Name | Tarsius syrichta |
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| Location | Bohol, Philippines |
| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Source | Tarsius Syrichta |
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| Copyright | © 2005 Kristoffer Dominic Amora |
| Scientific Name | Tarsius tarsier |
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| Location | Tangkoko National Park, North Sulawesi, Indonesia |
| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Source | Spectral Tarsier (Tarsius tarsier) |
| Source Collection | Flickr |
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| Copyright | © 2006 Lip Kee Yap |
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