Order Primates
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1
111
184
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316519
Lorisidae Gray 1821
Lorisidae
Gray 1821
,
London Med. Repos., 15: 298
.
Genera:
5 genera with 9 species:
Genus
Arctocebus
Gray 1863
(2 species)
Genus
Loris
E.
Geoffroy 1796
(2 species with 4 subspecies)
Genus
Nycticebus
E. Geoffroy 1812
(3 species with 3 subspecies)
Genus
Perodicticus
Bennett 1830
(1 species with 3 subspecies)
Genus
Pseudopotto
Schwartz 1996
(1 species)
Discussion:
The original form of the name was
Loridae
(see
Jenkins [1987:1]
and
McKenna and Bell [1997]
, but the more commonly used form
Lorisidae
was conserved by Opinion 1995 of the
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (2002
a
)
. Goodman et al. (1998) recognized two subfamilies, Lorinae and Perodicticinae, for the Asian and African genera respectively, and included Galagoninae as a third subfamily.
McKenna and Bell (1997)
included Galagoninae and Lorinae as subfamilies, with Lorini (
Arctocebus
and
Loris
) and Nycticebini (
Nycticebus
and
Perodicticus
) as tribes; but their tribes are not monophyletic (
Groves, 2001
c
).