Indri vs Lemur - What's the difference?
indri | lemur |
(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
As nouns the difference between indri and lemur
is that indri is one of the largest living lemurs, while lemur is (colloquial) any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder lemuriformes, superfamily lemuroidea, native only to madagascar and some surrounding islands.lemur
Noun
(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.] }}