genus Tarsius

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genus Tarsius - type and sole genus of the family TarsiidaeTarsiusmammal genus - a genus of mammalsfamily Tarsiidae, Tarsiidae - coextensive with the genus Tarsius: tarsierstarsier - nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates