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Species
EndangeredMaximum longevity: 19.3 years (captivity) Observations: One captive specimen lived 19.3 years (Richard Weigl 2005).
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- slender loris
- Image
- Loris tardigradus tardigradus 001.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Endangered status
- taxon name
- Loris tardigradus
- Commons category
- Loris tardigradus
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- Loris tardigradus
- taxon common name
- Slender Loris
- longest observed lifespan
- 21.6
- short name
- L. tardigradus
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Encyclopedic overview
The red slender loris (Loris tardigradus) is a small, nocturnal strephsirrhine primate native to the rainforests of Sri Lanka. This is No. 6 of the 10 focal species and No. 22 of the 100 EDGE mammal species worldwide considered the most evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “red slender loris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.