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Xanthonycticebus pygmaeus — (c) Josh More, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND) · iNaturalist. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

(c) Josh More, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND) · iNaturalist. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Southern Pygmy Loris

Xanthonycticebus pygmaeus (Bonhote, 1907)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from: Southern Asia
Also published as: Nycticebus pygmaeus Bonhote, 1907

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Xanthonycticebus pygmaeus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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References

Blair, Mary E., Giang T. H. Cao, Elora H. López-Nandam, Daniel A. Veronese-Paniagua, et al. (2023). Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships and Unveiling Novel Genetic Diversity among Slow and Pygmy Lorises, including Resurrection of Xanthonycticebus intermedius. Genes, Vol. 14, No. 3, Article 643.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.