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Lorisidae
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Lorisidae (or sometimes Loridae) is a family of strepsirrhine primates. The lorisids are all slim arboreal animals and comprise the lorises, pottos, and angwantibos. Lorisids live in tropical, central Africa as well as in south and southeast Asia.
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Lorisidae is a family of animals within the order Primates, class Mammalia, and phylum Chordata. It belongs to the kingdom Animalia and is classified under the parent taxon Lorisiformes. The slender loris serves as the taxonomic type for this group. The family has been described in sources including the Nordisk familjebok and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
The temporal range for Lorisidae begins in the Early Miocene. Occurrence records are held by institutions such as YPM, CUMV, and ANSP, with specimens documented in Egypt, the United States, and Uganda. The family is distinct from the genus Loris.
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Species
Lorisidae
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderPrimates
- FamilyLorisidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- Family
- Lorisidae
- Collections
- YPM, CUMV, ANSP
- Recorded in
- Egypt, United States, Uganda
Research
260 papers- CITES proposal highlights rarity of Asian nocturnal primates (Lorisidae: Nycticebus).Folia primatologica; international journal of primatology · 2007
- Examining the molecular basis of coat color in a nocturnal primate family (Lorisidae).Ecology and evolution · 2021
- Mitogenome data of Nycticebus coucang insularis Robinson, 1917 (Primate: Lorisidae).Data in brief · 2019
- Taxonomy of the Bornean slow loris, with new species Nycticebus kayan (Primates, Lorisidae).American journal of primatology · 2013
- Using a multi-gene approach to infer the complicated phylogeny and evolutionary history of lorises (Order Primates: Family Lorisidae).Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · 2018
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Lorisiformes
- Image
- Loris tardigradus tardigradus 001.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lorisidae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Lorisidae
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- topic's main category
- Category:Lorisidae
- Commons gallery
- Lorisidae
- different from
- Loris
- taxonomic type
- slender loris
- temporal range start
- Early Miocene
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Classification
- Description
- Behavior and ecology
- References
- Literature cited
- External links
Lorisidae (or sometimes Loridae) is a family of strepsirrhine primates. The lorisids are all slim arboreal animals and comprise the lorises, pottos, and angwantibos. Lorisids live in tropical, central Africa as well as in south and southeast Asia.
== Classification ==
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