Perodicticinae is a subfamily of the family

Lorisidae Lorisidae (or sometimes Loridae) is a family of strepsirrhine primates. The lorisids are all slim arboreal animals and comprise the lorises, pottos, and angwantibos. Lorisids live in tropical, central Africa as well as in south and southeast A ...

. It includes five species of

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

primate Primates is an order (biology), order of mammals, which is further divided into the Strepsirrhini, strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and Lorisidae, lorisids; and the Haplorhini, haplorhines, which include Tarsiiformes, tarsiers a ...

s as shown under taxonomy below. They have a vestigial tail and index finger. The snout is pointed and the ears and eyes are large. The

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is dense, brown and woolly.

Taxonomy

* Family

** Subfamily Perodicticinae *** Genus ''

Arctocebus Angwantibos are two species of strepsirrhine primates classified in the genus ''Arctocebus'' of the family Lorisidae. They are also known as golden pottos because of their yellow or golden coloration. Angwantibos live in tropical Africa and thei ...

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Calabar angwantibo The Calabar angwantibo (''Arctocebus calabarensis''), also known as the Calabar potto, is a strepsirrhine primate of the family Lorisidae. It shares the genus '' Arctocebus'' with the golden angwantibo (''Arctocebus aureus''). It is closely rela ...

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Golden angwantibo The golden angwantibo (''Arctocebus aureus'') is a strepsirrhine primate of the family Lorisidae. It shares the genus ''Arctocebus'' with the Calabar angwantibo (''Arctocebus calabarensis'') and together they are commonly called the golden pottos ...

, ''Arctocebus aureus'' *** Genus ''

Perodicticus The pottos are three species of strepsirrhine primate in the genus ''Perodicticus'' of the family Lorisidae. In some English-speaking parts of Africa, they are called "softly-softlys". Etymology The common name "potto" may be from Wolof langua ...

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Central African potto The Central African potto (''Perodicticus edwardsi'') is a species of nocturnal strepsirrhine primate. It is found in Central Africa. It is also known as Milne-Edwards's potto, after Alphonse Milne-Edwards. Taxonomy It was formerly considered ...

, ''Perodictitus edwardsi'' ****

East African potto The East African potto (''Perodicticus ibeanus'') is a species of nocturnal strepsirrhine primate. It is found in Central and East Africa. Taxonomy It was formerly considered a subspecies of the West African potto (''Perodicticus potto''), but ...

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West African potto The West African potto (''Perodicticus potto'') is a species of nocturnal strepsirrhine primate. It is found in tropical West Africa. It is also known as Bosman's potto, after Willem Bosman, who described the species in 1704. It is the type speci ...

, ''Perodicticus potto'' ** Subfamily

Lorisinae Loris is the common name for the strepsirrhine mammals of the subfamily Lorinae (sometimes spelled Lorisinae) in the family Lorisidae. ''Loris'' is one genus in this subfamily and includes the slender lorises, ''Nycticebus'' is the genus contain ...

The

false potto The false potto (''Pseudopotto martini'') is a Lorisoidea, lorisoid primate of uncertain Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic status found in Africa. Anthropologist Jeffrey H. Schwartz named it in 1996 as the only species of the genus ''Pseudopotto'' o ...

(''Pseudopotto martini'') is now thought to be a misidentified individual of a ''

'' species.

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Lorises and galagos Primates of Africa Mammal subfamilies Taxa named by John Edward Gray Taxa described in 1870 {{primate-stub