LORIDAE

Pottos and Lorises



Golden Angwantibo

Arctocebus aureus de Winton, 1902
Distribution: C Africa, S of Sanaga River, W and N of Zaire/Oubungui River system.
Status: CITES - Appendix II
Photo: NA



Angwantibo

Arctocebus calabarensis (J. A. Smith, 1860)
Distribution: C Africa, between Niger and Sanaga Rivers.
Status: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.
Photo: Angwantibo in Cameroon by Anna Nekaris, Ph.D. (Washington University Primate Biology)


Slender Loris
Slender Loris

Loris tardigradus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Distribution: Sri Lanka, S India.
Status: CITES - Appendix II
Photo: young male L.t. lydekkerianus at Nattum, TN by Anna Nekaris, Ph.D. (Washington University Primate Biology)

Visit Creature of the Dark, a Web site featuring the Slender Loris.


Slow Loris
Slow Loris

Nycticebus coucang (Boddaert, 1785)
Distribution: Sulu Arch. (S Philippines); Assam (India) to Vietnam and Malay Peninsula; W Indonesia; Yunnan, perhaps Kwangsi (China).
Status: CITES - Appendix II
Photo: slow loris infant; photo from San Diego Zoo; Anna Nekaris, Ph.D. (Washington University Primate Biology)



Pygmy Loris

Nycticebus pygmaeus Bonhote, 1907
Distribution: Laos; Cambodia; Vietnam, east of Mekong River; S Yunnan (China).
Status: CITES - Appendix II; U.S. ESA - Threatened; IUCN - Vulnerable.
File: JPEG 35K; Photo: DUPC



Potto

Perodicticus potto (Muller, 1766)
Distribution: Cameroon to Guinea; Congo Republic; Gabon; Zaire to W Kenya.
Status: CITES - Appendix II.
File: JPEG 12K; Photo: David Haring, DUPC


Web sites of interest

DUPC Gallery of Nocturnal Prosimians

Lorisidae Portrait Gallery


Primate Gallery Archive