Nycticebus Geoffroy 1812 (slow loris)

Mammalia - Primates - Lorisidae

Alternative spelling: Nyaticebus

Synonym: Bradycebus Cuvier and Geoffroy 1795

Parent taxon: Lorisinae according to T. Harrison 2010

See also Gray 1825, Mein and Ginsburg 1997, Stone and Rehn 1902 and Yoder et al. 2001

Sister taxa: Loris, Microloris, Nycticeboides

Subtaxa: Nycticebus bancanus Nycticebus bengalensis Nycticebus borneanus Nycticebus coucang Nycticebus javanicus Nycticebus kayan Nycticebus linglom Nycticebus menagensis Nycticebus pygmaeus

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Type: Tardigradus coucang

Ecology: arboreal insectivore-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Li Mae Long (Miocene to Miocene of Thailand)

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