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Slow Lorises
Nycticebus
Slow lorises are a group of several species of nocturnal strepsirrhine primates that make up the genus Nycticebus. Found in Southeast Asia and bordering areas, they range from Bangladesh and Northeast India in the west to the Sulu Archipelago in the Philippines in the east, and from Yunnan province in China in the north to the island of Java in the south. Although many previous classifications recognized as few as a single all-inclusive species, there are...
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 8 known species
Philippine Slow Loris
speciesNycticebus menagensis
Sunda Slow Loris
speciesNycticebus coucang
Bengal Slow Loris
speciesNycticebus bengalensis
Javan Slow Loris
speciesNycticebus javanicus
Sumatra Slow Loris
speciesNycticebus hilleri
Kayan River Slow Loris
speciesNycticebus kayan
Bornean Slow Loris
speciesNycticebus borneanus
Bangka Slow Loris
speciesNycticebus bancanus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 43626.