Mammals of the WorldMakassar Tarsier
Tarsius fuscus
- Order
- Primates
- Family
- Tarsiidae
- Genus
- Tarsius
- IUCN status
- VU
- Distribution
- Indonesia
- Realm
- Australasia
About this species
The Makassar tarsier (Tarsius fuscus), also known locally as Balao Cengke, belongs to tarsier. At one point the taxon was downgraded to a junior synonym of the spectral tarsier (T. tarsier). The taxonomy of the tarsiers from Sulawesi has long been confused. T. fuscus was initially described by Fischer in 1804. The species was subsequently renamed twice inadvertently, as T. fuscomanus in 1812 by Geoffroy and as T. fischeri in 1846 by Burmeister. (Wikipedia, general species account).
Its range is in Indonesia in the southwestern peninsula of the island of Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, near Makassar. 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. In 2010, Groves restricted T. tarsier to just those tarsiers on the island of Selayar, making the name T. fuscus valid once again for the tarsiers near Makassar. (Wikipedia, general species account).
Description: Wildlife of sulawesi guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)