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New species of tarsier from Siau Island, North Sulawesi, described and named by an international team

(January 2009)

The Siau Island tarsier, Tarsius tumpara
The Siau Island tarsier, Tarsius tumpara, is described and named by an international team headed by Dr. Myron Shekelle, the head of an American science-based conservation organization, tarsier.org, based in Burlington, Washington. Other members of the team include: Dr. Colin Groves, author of the book Primate Taxonomy and quite possibly the world's most respected authority on the subject, Dr. Stefan Merker, from the University of Mainz, in Germany, and Dr. Jatna Supriatna, the director of Conservation International, Inc.'s Indonesia office. The tarsier was discovered in 2005, when Dr. Shekelle visited Siau Island with his long-term collaborators Yunus Masala, Johnny Lengkei, and Erdenipan Tundu, from Batuputih, North Sulawesi, gateway to Tangkoko Nature Reserve. Interestingly, although these team members are residents of Batuputih, Batuputih, itself, was founded by people from Siau, and all of the Indonesian members of the discovery team trace their ancestry to Siau Island.

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