Loris

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Lorises

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Family:	Lorisidae
Subfamily:	Lorinae Gray, 1821

Genera

Loris
Nycticebus

For other uses, see Loris (disambiguation).

Loris is the common name for the strepsirrhine primates of the subfamily Lorinae in family Lorisidae. Loris is one genus in this subfamily and represents the slender lorises, while Nycticebus is the genus for the slow lorises.

Family Lorisidae
- Subfamily Perodicticinae
- Subfamily Lorinae
  - Genus Loris
    - Gray Slender Loris, Loris lydekkerianus
      - Highland Slender Loris, Loris lydekkerianus grandis
      - Mysore Slender Loris, Loris lydekkerianus lydekkerianus
      - Malabar Slender Loris, Loris lydekkerianus malabaricus
      - Northern Slender Loris, Loris lydekkerianus nordicus
    - Red Slender Loris, Loris tardigradus
      - Dry Zone Slender Loris, Loris tardigradus tardigradus
      - Horton Plains Slender Loris, Loris tardigradus nyctoceboides
  - Genus Nycticebus
    - Sunda Loris, Nycticebus coucang
    - Bengal Slow Loris, Nycticebus bengalensis
    - Pygmy Slow Loris, Nycticebus pygmaeus

[edit] References

Participants of CBSG CAMP Workshop: Status of South Asian Primates 2004. Loris lydekkerianus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2007. link
Participants of CBSG CAMP Workshop: Status of South Asian Primates 2004. Loris tardigradus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2007. link