Cheirogaleus major

Familia: Cheirogaleidae
Genus: Cheirogaleus
Species: Cheirogaleus major

Cheirogaleus major É. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1812: 172

Neotype: MNHN 148, mounted skin and skull. [designated by Groves (2000: 957)]

Type locality: not assigned; probably either Toamasina (formerly Tamatave) or between there and Antananarivo (Goodman in litt.).

• Lemur commersonii Wolf, 1822 [renaming of Cheirogaleus major É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire]

• Cheirogaleus milii É. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1828: 24

Holotype: MNHN 148, mounted skin and skull.

Type locality: not assigned.

• Cheirogaleus typicus Smith, 1833: 50

Holotype: BMNH 37.9.26.77.

Type locality: “Madagascar.”

• Mioxicebus griseus Lesson, 1840 [renaming of Cheirogaleus major É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire]

• Cheirogaleus ravus Groves, 2000: 960 [synonymised by Groeneveld et al. (2009: 16)]

Holotype: BMNH 88.2.18.3, young adult indet., skin and skull.

Type locality: “Tamatave [=Toamasina] (about 18ºS, 14ºE),” Madagascar

• Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. 1812. Notes sur trois dessins de Commerçon. Annales du Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 19: 171–175.
• Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, E. 1828. Cours de l’Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères. Paris.
• Smith, A. 1833. African zoology. South African Quarterly Journal 2(1): 49–64. BHL
• Groves, C.P. 2000. The genus Cheirogaleus: unrecognized biodiversity in dwarf lemurs. International Journal of Primatology 21(6): 943–962. DOI: 10.1023/A:1005559012637 Reference page. 
• Groeneveld, L.F., Weisrock, D.W., Rasoloarison, R.M., Yoder, A.D. & Kappeler, P.M. 2009. Species delimitation in lemurs: multiple genetic loci reveal low levels of species diversity in the genus Cheirogaleus. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: 30. Reference page. 

• Cheirogaleus major in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.