loris

A primitive primate, native to forests in S and SE Asia; no tail; pale face with dark rings around large eyes; slow climbers; three species: slender loris (Loris tardigradus) with long thin legs; slow loris or cu lan (Nycticebus coucang), and lesser slow loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus). (Family: Lorisidae.)

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Slender loris (Loris spp.)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Family:	Lorisidae
Subfamily:	Lorinae Gray, 1821

Genera

Loris
Nycticebus

Loris is the common name for the strepsirrhine primates of the subfamily Lorinae in family Lorisidae.

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