Loris

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For other uses, see Loris (disambiguation).
Lorises[1]
Joseph Smit's Faces of Lorises (1904)
Joseph Smit's Faces of Lorises (1904)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Lorisidae
Subfamily: Lorinae
Gray, 1821
Genera

Loris
Nycticebus

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

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  1. ^ 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, 122-123. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
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