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The Strepsirrhini clade is one of the two suborders of primates. Madagascar's only primates are strepsirrhines, although others can be found in southeast AsiaThe continent of Asia is defined by subtracting Europe and Africa from the great land mass of Africa-Eurasia. The boundaries are vague, especially between Asia and Europe: Asia and Africa meet somewhere near the Suez Canal. The boundary between Asia and E. The suborder is composed of seven families split into two groups. The first group contains the infraorder Lemuriformes, four families of creatures typically called lemurCheirogaleidae Lemuridae Megaladapidae Indridae Lemurs are part of a class of primates known as prosimians, and make up the infraorder Lemuriformes . These animals are the evolutionary predecessors of monkeys and apes ( simians). The term "lemur" is derivs. The other three families include all of the lorisLoris tardigradus ''Loris lydekkerianus ''Nycticebus coucang ''Nycticebus bengalensis ''Nycticebus pygmaeus Loris is the genus for the Slender lorises as well as the common name for them and for the genus Nycticebus . Both Loris and Nycticebus are in thees, plus the galagoSee text Galago is one of the genera in the family Galagonidae, as well as the name for all of the creatures in that family. Galagonidae is sometimes included as a subfamily within the Loridae (or Lorisidae). Senegal Bushbaby, Galago senegalensis Galago ss, the Aye-ayeThe Aye-aye Daubentonia madagascariensis is a primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle finger to fill the ecological niche of a woodpecker. It taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood and inser, and the pottoPerodicticus ''Arctocebus ''Psudopotto The names Potto and Angwantibo refer to four species of African primates in the genera Perodicticus Psudopotto and Arctocebus and make up the subfamily Perodicticinae . They have a vestigial tail and index finger.s. However, the Aye-aye is considered an outgroup in this clade and is given its own infraorder ( Chiromyiformes). The remaining two families make up the infraorder Loriformes .