Lepilemur I. Geoffroy, 1851 . Cat. Meth. Coll. Mamm. Ois. (Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris), Primates, p. 75.

TYPE SPECIES: Lepilemur mustelinus I. Geoffroy, 1851 .

SYNONYMS: Galeocebus, Lepidilemur; Mixocebus, Peters, 1874 .

COMMENTS: Revised by Petter et al. (1977:274-318). Six of the seven species are known to be karyotypically distinct. Rumpier (1975) and Corbet and Hill (1980:83) placed this genus in a subfamily of Lemuridae . Petter and Petter (1977:6) placed it in its own family Lepilemuridae .