Primate Gallery

GALAGONIDAE

Bush Babies or Galagos




Southern Needle-clawed Bush Baby

Euoticus elegantulus (Le Conte, 1857)
Distribution: Gabon, Congo Republic, Cameroon south of Sanaga River.
Status: CITES - Appendix II
Photo: NA



Northern Needle-clawed Bush Baby

Euoticus pallidus (Gray, 1863)
Distribution: Bioko (Equatorial Guinea); between Sanaga River (Cameroon) and Niger River.
Status: CITES - Appendix II
Photo: NA



Allen's Bush Baby

Galago alleni Waterhouse, 1838
Distribution: Bioko (Equatorial Guinea), Gabon, Cameroon, Congo Republic.
Status: CITES - Appendix II
Photo: NA



Somali Bush Baby

Galago gallarum Thomas, 1901
Distribution: Between Tana River (Kenya) and Shebele River (Somalia), west of Ethiopian Rift.
Status: CITES - Appendix II
Photo: NA



Matschie's Bush Baby

Galago matschiei Lorenz, 1917
Distribution: E Zaire; perhaps Uganda
Status: CITES - Appendix II
Photo: NA



Southern Lesser Bush Baby

Galago moholi A. Smith, 1836
Distribution: South Africa, to SW Tanzania and E Zaire
Status: CITES - Appendix II
Photo: NA



Northern Lesser Bush Baby

Galago senegalensis E. Geoffroy, 1796
Distribution: Senegal to Ethiopia, south to South Africa and Angola; perhaps Namibia.
Status: CITES - Appendix II
Photo: NA



Demidoff's Bush Baby or Dwarf Galago

Galagoides demidoff (Fischer, 1806)
Distribution: Senegal to Uganda; Bioko (Equatorial Guinea); isolated forests of Kenya and Tanzania south to Malawi
Status: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known as G. thomasi.
Photo: NA



Thomas's Bush Baby

Galagoides thomasi
Distribution:
Status:
Photo: NA



Zanzibar Bush Baby

Galagoides zanzibaricus (Matschie, 1893)
Distribution: E African coast from Tana River, south to S Mozambique; Zanzibar.
Status: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Vulnerable
Photo: NA



Thick-tailed Greater Bush Baby

Otolemur crassicaudatus (E. Geoffroy, 1812)
Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda to Natal (South Africa) and Angola.
Status: CITES - Appendix II
Photo: NA



Garnett's Greater Bush Baby

Otolemur garnettii (Ogilby, 1838)
Distribution: S Somalia to SE Tanzania (including Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia Islands).
Status: CITES - Appendix II
Photo: NA


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