Perodicticinae
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Perodicticinae is the subfamily of Lorisidae
that includes the four species of Africa
n primate
s as shown below. They have a vestigial tail and index finger. The snout is pointed and the ears and eyes are large. The coat
is dense, brown and woolly.
Lorisidae
Lorisidae is a family of strepsirrhine primates. The lorisids are all slim arboreal animals and include the lorises, pottos and angwantibos. Lorisids live in tropical, central Africa as well as in south and southeast Asia....
that includes the four species of Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
n primate
Primate
A primate is a mammal of the order Primates , which contains prosimians and simians. Primates arose from ancestors that lived in the trees of tropical forests; many primate characteristics represent adaptations to life in this challenging three-dimensional environment...
s as shown below. They have a vestigial tail and index finger. The snout is pointed and the ears and eyes are large. The coat
Fur
Fur is a synonym for hair, used more in reference to non-human animals, usually mammals; particularly those with extensives body hair coverage. The term is sometimes used to refer to the body hair of an animal as a complete coat, also known as the "pelage". Fur is also used to refer to animal...
is dense, brown and woolly.
- Family LorisidaeLorisidaeLorisidae is a family of strepsirrhine primates. The lorisids are all slim arboreal animals and include the lorises, pottos and angwantibos. Lorisids live in tropical, central Africa as well as in south and southeast Asia....
- Subfamily Perodicticinae
- Genus Arctocebus
- Calabar angwantiboCalabar AngwantiboThe Calabar angwantibo , also known as the Calabar potto, is a strepsirrhine primate from the Lorisidae family. It shares the genus Arctocebus with the golden angwantibo...
, Arctocebus calabarensis - Golden angwantiboGolden AngwantiboThe golden angwantibo is a strepsirrhine primate from the family Lorisidae. It shares the Arctocebus genus with the Calabar angwantibo and together they are commonly called the golden pottos. The golden...
, Arctocebus aureus
- Calabar angwantibo
- Genus Perodicticus
- PottoPottoThe potto is a strepsirrhine primate from the Lorisidae family. It is the only species in genus Perodicticus...
, Perodicticus potto
- Potto
- Genus Pseudopotto
- False pottoFalse PottoThe false potto is a lorisiform primate of uncertain taxonomic status found in Africa. Anthropologist Jeffrey H. Schwartz named it in 1996 as the only species of the genus Pseudopotto on the basis of two specimens that had previously been identified as pottos...
, Pseudopotto martini (status uncertain)
- False potto
- Genus Arctocebus
- Subfamily Lorisinae
- Subfamily Perodicticinae