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Taxon:
Genus
Loris
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1796
- slender loris
(mammal)
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Entity:
Lorisidae (Family) - lorises, pottos, and galagos
..Arctocebus (Genus) - golden potto, angwantibo
..†Microloris (Genus)
..†Mioeuoticus (Genus)
..†Nycticeboides (Genus)
..Nycticebus (Genus) - slow lorises
..Perodicticus (Genus) - potto
..Pseudopotto (Genus)
..Loris (Genus) - slender loris
....Loris lydekkerianus (Species)
....Loris tardigradus (Species) - slender loris
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1796
Original name
:
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. 1796:48.
Original rank
:
Original spelling
:
Types
Type of
:
Lorinae
(Subfamily)
Gray, 1821, orth. rej.
Ref:
P. Bouchet & J.-P. Rocroi, 2005
: 102.
Type of
:
Lorini
(Tribe)
Gray, 1821
Ref:
M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
: 334.
[
new
] [inferred]
Type of
:
Lorisidae
(Family)
Gray, 1821, orth. cons.
Ref:
E. Delson et al. (eds.), 2000
: xxiv.
[inferred]
Type of
:
Lorisiformes
(Infraorder)
Gregory, 1915
Type of
:
Lorisoidea
(Superfamily)
Gray, 1821
Ref:
E. Delson et al. (eds.), 2000
: xxiv.
[inferred]
Type, by original designation
:
Loris tardigradus
(C. Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Synonymous name
:
Loridium
(Genus)
Rafinesque, 1815, nom. illeg.
Ref:
PBDB
: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name
:
Stenops
(Genus)
B. Nordenstam (1978)
Ref:
PBDB
: 27 Oct 2013.
Synonymous name
:
Tardigradus
nom. inval.
Ref:
PBDB
: 30 Nov 2019.
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
slender loris
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