Loris

Loris

Taxobox
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image_width = 266px
image_caption = Joseph Smit's "Faces of Lorises" (1904)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Lorisidae
subfamilia = Lorinae
subfamilia_authority = Gray, 1821
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "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"
**** Sunda Loris, "Nycticebus coucang"
**** Bengal Slow Loris, "Nycticebus bengalensis"
**** Pygmy Slow Loris, "Nycticebus pygmaeus"

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