Nycticebus javanicus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812 (slow loris)

Mammalia - Primates - Lorisidae

Alternative combination: Nycticebus coucang javanicus

Full reference: M. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. 1812. Suite au Tableau des Quadrumanes. Annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle 19:156-170

Belongs to Nycticebus according to C. J. Burgin et al. 2018

See also Groves and Maryanto 2008 and Stone and Rehn 1902

Sister taxa: Nycticebus bancanus, Nycticebus bengalensis, Nycticebus borneanus, Nycticebus coucang, Nycticebus kayan, Nycticebus linglom, Nycticebus menagensis, Nycticebus pygmaeus

Ecology: arboreal insectivore-herbivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Nycticebus javanicus in the database

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