Daubentonia robusta Lamberton, 1935
Giant aye-aye
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Chiromys robustus Lamberton, 1935
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1065 ± 40 14C age BP ± SD (Michielsen et al., 2023)
Distribution
Madagascar
Biology
Hypodigm
UA 3890 (Meador, 2017:39)
UA 3891 (Meador, 2017:39)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lamberton, C. (1934). Contribution a la connaissance de la faune subfossole de Madagascar. Lemuriens et Ratites. [i]Chiromys robustus[/i] sp. nov. Lamb. Memories de l'Academie Malgache 17: 40-46.
Other references:
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Burney DA, Burney LP, Godfrey LR, Jungers WL, Goodman SM, Wright HT, and Jull AJT (2004) A chronology for late prehistoric Madagascar. Journal of Human Evolution 47, 25–63.
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Goodman, S. M. & Jungers, W. L. Extinct Madagascar: Picturing the island’s past. (University of Chicago Press, 2014).
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Jungers, W. L., Demes, B. and Godfrey, L. R. (2008). How big were the "giant" extinct lemurs of Madagascar?, pp. 343-360. In: Fleagle, J. G. and Gilbert, C. C. (eds.). Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins. New York: Springer.
Karanth, K.P., Delefosse, T., Rakotosamimanana, B., Parsons, T.J. & Yoder, A.D. 2005 Ancient DNA from giant extinct lemurs confirms single origin of Malagasy primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 102, 5090-5095.
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Meador, Lindsay Renee. (2017). Who Ate the Subfossil Lemurs? A Taphonomic and Community Study of Raptor, Crocodylian and Carnivoran Predation of the Extinct Quaternary Lemurs of Madagascar. Dissertation. xvii + 388 pp.
Michielsen, Nathan M., Goodman, Steven M., Soarimalala, Voahangy, van der Geer, Alexandra A. E., Dávalos, Liliana M., Saville, Grace I., Upham, Nathan and Valente, Luis. (2023). The macroevolutionary impact of recent and imminent mammal extinctions on Madagascar. Nature Communications 14: 14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35215-3 [Supplementary Data 1 (mammal list); Supplementary Data 6 (references)]
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Quinn, A. & Wilson, D. E. Daubentonia madagascariensis. Mamm. Species 740, 1–6 (2004).
Simons, Elwyn L. (1994). The giant aye-aye Daubentonia robusta. Folia Pimaol (Basel) 52(1-3): 14-21. [Abstract]
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]
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