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Pottos
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Pottos

Perodicticus

The potto (Perodicticus potto) is a strepsirrhine primate of the family Lorisidae. It is the only species in the genus Perodicticus. It is also known as Bosman's potto, after Willem Bosman who described the species in 1704. In some English-speaking parts of Africa, it is called a "softly-softly".

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

West African Potto

speciesPerodicticus potto

East African Potto

speciesPerodicticus ibeanus

Central African Potto

speciesPerodicticus edwardsi

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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 43629.