Giant Aye-aye

Giant Aye-aye

Taxobox
name = Giant Aye-aye
status = EX
trend = unknown
status_system = iucn2.3


image_width = 230px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Daubentoniidae
genus = "Daubentonia"
species = "D. robusta"
binomial = "Daubentonia robusta"
binomial_authority =

The Giant Aye-aye ("Daubentonia robusta") is an extinct relative of the Aye-aye. It lived in Madagascar. It appears to have disappeared less than 1000 years ago, but is entirely unknown in life, and only known from subfossil remains.cite book | author = Nowak, R. M. (editor) | title = Walker's Mammals of the World, 6th edition | year = 1999 | id = ISBN 0801857899 | pages = p.533-534 (vol. 1)] As of 2004, Giant Aye-aye remains consisted of 4 incisors, a tibia, and postcranial material. [cite journal |last=Quinn |first=Aleta |year=2004 |title= Daubentonia madagascariensis | journal=Mammalian Species |volume=740 |pages=1–6|accessdate= 2007-10-24 |url= http://www.bioone.org/archive/1545-1410/740/1/pdf/i1545-1410-740-1-1.pdf |doi= 10.1644/740] Subfossils of this species have been found in the southern and southeastern portion of Madagascar, outside of the range of still extant Aye-aye.cite journal |last=Simons |first=EL |year=1994 |title= The giant aye-aye Daubentonia robusta |journal=Folia Pimaol (Basel) |volume=52 |issue=1-3 |pages=14–21 |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=7721200&query_hl=3&itool=pubmed_docsum |accessdate= 2007-10-24] It is believed that the Giant Aye-aye was very similar morphologically to the Aye-aye, but being 2 to 2.5 times larger based upon jaw and incisor measurements.

References

Nilsson, G. (1983). "The Endangered Species Handbook." ISBN 0-938-424-09-7


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