*The picture is of Tarsius spectrum taken from the Primate Gallery web site

Family Tarsiidae

a.    Characteristics

• one of the smallest of all living primates
• grooming claws on second and third toes
• unfused mandibular symphysis
• eyes larger than brain
• nearly complete, posteriorly, eye socket
• absent ethmoid recess
• cranial blood supply by promontory branch of internal carotid a.
• dental formula (2133/1133)
• hands and feet relatively enormous
• fused tibia and fibula and long tarsal bones

b.    Tarsius bancanus (Bornean tarsier), T. spectrum (spectral tarsier),
T. syrichta ( Philippine tarsier), and T. pumilus (pygmy tarsier)

• Bornean tarsier and Spectral tarsier are both nocturnal
• Pygmy tarsier has keeled nails for clinging
•  faunivorous
•  move by rapid leaps up to 3 meters