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Aye-aye
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Status: Endangered
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<tr><th bgcolor=pink>Scientific classification
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<tr><td>Kingdom:<td>Animalia
<tr><td>Phylum:<td>Chordata
<tr><td>Class:<td>Mammalia
<tr><td>Order:<td>Primates
<tr><td>Suborder:<td>Strepsirrhini
<tr><td>Family:<td>Daubentoniidae
<tr><td>Genus:<td>Daubentonia
<tr><td>Species:<td>madagascariensis
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<tr><th bgcolor=pink>Binomial name
<tr><td align="center">Daubentonia madagascariensis
Gmelin, 1788
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The Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle finger to fill the ecological niche of a woodpecker. It taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood and inserts its finger to pull the grubs out. The Aye-aye is the only extant species in the family Daubentoniidae and infraorder Chiromyiformes. A second species was exterminated over the last few centuries.
Classification
- ORDER PRIMATES
- Suborder Strepsirrhini: non-tarsier prosimians
- Infraorder Lemuriformes
- Infraorder Chiromyiformes
- Family Daubentoniidae: Aye-aye
- Genus Daubentonia
- Aye-aye, Daubentonia madagascariensis
- (Daubentonia robusta, extinct)
- Infraorder Loriformes
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