Loris
| Lorises Temporal range: Miocene to present | |
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Joseph Smit's Faces of Lorises (1904) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
| Family: | Lorisidae |
| Subfamily: | Lorinae Gray, 1821[1] |
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Loris is the common name for the strepsirrhine primates of the subfamily Lorinae[1] (sometimes spelled Lorisinae[2]) in the family Lorisidae. Loris is one genus in this subfamily and includes the slender lorises, while Nycticebus is the genus containing the slow lorises.
Description
Lorises are nocturnal. They are found in tropical and woodland forests of India, Sri Lanka, and parts of southeast Asia. Loris locomotion is a slow and cautious climbing form of quadrupedalism. Some lorises are almost entirely insectivorous, while others also include fruits, gums, leaves, and slugs in their diet.[3]
Female lorises practice infant parking, leaving their infants behind in nests. Before they do this, they bathe their young with allergenic saliva that is acquired by licking patches on the insides of their elbows, which produce a mild toxin that discourages most predators,[3] though orangutans occasionally eat lorises.[4]
Taxonomic classification
The family Lorisidae is found within the infraorder Lemuriformes and superfamily Lorisoidea, along with the family Galagidae, the galagos. This infraorder is a sister taxon of Lemuriformes, the lemurs. Within Lorinae, there are ten species (and several more subspecies) of lorises across two genera:[1]
- Family Lorisidae
- Subfamily Perodicticinae
Subfamily Lorinae
- Genus Loris
Gray slender loris, Loris lydekkerianus
- Highland slender loris, L. lydekkerianus grandis
- Mysore slender loris, L. lydekkerianus lydekkerianus
- Malabar slender loris, L. lydekkerianus malabaricus
- Northern slender loris, L. lydekkerianus nordicus
- Highland slender loris, L. lydekkerianus grandis
Red slender loris, L. tardigradus
- Dry Zone slender loris, L. tardigradus tardigradus
- Horton Plains slender loris, L. tardigradus nyctoceboides
- Dry Zone slender loris, L. tardigradus tardigradus
- Genus Nycticebus
Bangka slow loris, Nycticebus bancanus
Bengal slow loris, N. bengalensis
Bornean slow loris, N. borneanus
Sunda slow loris, N. coucang
Javan slow loris, N. javanicus
Kayan River slow loris, N. kayan
Philippine slow loris, N. menagensis
- †? N. linglom (fossil, Miocene)
Pygmy slow loris, N. pygmaeus
- Genus Loris
- Subfamily Perodicticinae
References
^ abc Groves, C.P. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 122–123. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ Brandon-Jones, D.; Eudey, A. A.; Geissmann, T.; Groves, C. P.; Melnick, D. J.; Morales, J. C.; Shekelle, M.; Stewart, C.-B. (2004). "Asian Primate Classification" (PDF). International Journal of Primatology. 25 (1): 100. doi:10.1023/b:ijop.0000014647.18720.32.
^ ab Jurmain; et al. (2008). "Introduction to Physical Anthropology".
^ "Orangutan Ecology | Orangutan Foundation International". Orangutan.org. Retrieved 2014-01-14.
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