Zanzibar Bushbaby

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Zanzibar Bushbaby
Conservation status
Near Threatened
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Family: Galagidae Genus: Galago Species: G. zanzibaricus
Binomial name
Galago zanzibaricus Matschie, 1893

The Zanzibar Bushbaby (Galago zanzibaricus) is a primate of the Galagidae family. An adult typically weighs 100–300 grams and is 34–39.5 centimetres long (3.5–10.5 oz, 13.5–15.5 in). Like other species of galagos, their diet consists mainly of fruit.

For a time, this species and Prince Demidoff's Galago were removed from the genus Galago and placed into the new genus Galagoides. Recent work in molecular systemics have shown that this removal was erroneous, the two species have been returned to the Galago genus, and Galagoides made defunct.

There are two subspecies of this bushbaby:

• Galago zanzibaricus zanzibaricus
• Galago zanzibaricus cocos

[edit] References

• Primate Specialist Group (1996). Galago zanzibaricus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006.
• Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 126. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.