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General characteristics
This subfamily is proposed to subdivide the family Lemuridae into three subfamilies: subfamily Eulemurinae, subfamily Vareciinae and subfamily Lemurinae. Varecia should be placed into a separate subfamily to express the division into the three major groups that nowadays comprise the family Lemuridae, taking into account several DNA-sequencing results (most of the work of Yoder especially Yoder and Irwin, 1999) as well as certain anatomical, cytogenetic and behavioral characters of these species (combined DNA and morphological data, phylo tree Yoder; Macedonia and Stanger, 1994, communications signals,phylo tree Macedonia & Stanger; Dutrillaux and Rumpler, 1995, karyotypic analysis,cladogram Dutrillaux & Rumpler; phylo tree Dutrillaux & Rumpler; Takahashi and Kondo, 1977; Rumpler and Dutrillaux, 1978; Rumpler and Dutrillaux, 1990; Petter et al., 1977).