What is the difference between eulemur and lemur?
eulemur | lemur | Derived terms |
(colloquial) Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
The genus Lemur , represented by the ring-tailed lemur ().
* {{quote-book
, year=1758
, author=Linnaeus, C.
, title=Systema Naturæ
, volume=1
, edition=10
(obsolete) The genus for a loris (), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ .
* {{quote-book
, year=1754
, author=Linnaeus, C.
, title=Museum Adolphi Friderici Regis
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Eulemur is a derived term of lemur.
eulemur
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Eulemur has no English definition. It may be misspelled.lemur
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(en noun)citation, publisher=Laurentius Salvius , location=Stockholm, Sweden , pages=29–30 , pageurl=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726922 }}
citation, publisher=Typographia Regia , location=Stockholm, Sweden , page=3–4 , pageurl=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k972707/f36.image , passage="Lemures dixi hos, quod noctu imprimis obambulant, hominibus quodanmodo similes, & lento passu vagantur." , translation=[I call them lemurs , because they go around mainly by night, in a certain way similar to humans, and roam with a slow pace.] }}