Chiromyiformes

Chiromyiformes is an infraorder of strepsirrhine primates that includes the aye-aye from Madagascar and its extinct relatives.

Chiromyiformes Temporal range: late Eocene to the present
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Mirorder:	Primatomorpha
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Strepsirrhini
Infraorder:	Chiromyiformes Anthony and Coupin, 1931
Families
Daubetoniidae †Plesiopithecidae †Propotto

Classification

Aye-Aye skeleton

The aye-aye is sometimes classified as a member of Lemuriformes, but others treat Chiromyiformes as a separate infraorder, based on their very reduced dental formula.^[1] Gunnell et al. (2018) reclassified the putative bat Propotto as a close relative of the aye-aye, as well as assigning the problematic strepsirrhine primate Plesiopithecus to Chiromyiformes.^[2]

Evolution

The molecular clock puts the divergence of Chiromyiformes and Lemuriformes at 50-49 million years ago.^[1][3]