Daubentonia

Translingual

Daubentonia madagascariensis

Etymology

From French Daubenton (“a surname”) +‎ -ia; after 18th-century French naturalist Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton.

Proper noun

Daubentonia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Daubentoniidae – the aye-ayes, lemurs, of Madagascar.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia - infraclass; Primates - order; Strepsirrhini - suborder; Daubentoniidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Daubentonia madagascariensis - sole extant species; †Daubentonia robusta (extinct) - species

References

• Daubentonia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Daubentonia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Daubentonia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Daubentonia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Daubentonia at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Daubentonia in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
• Daubentonia at Paleobiology Database