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Definition of Nycticebus tardigradus

Nycticebus tardigradus
Lemur Le"mur (l[=e]"m[u^]r), n. [L., a ghost, specter. So called on account of its habit of going abroad by night.] (Zo["o]l.) One of a family (Lemurid[ae]) of nocturnal mammals allied to the monkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle, and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and are mostly natives of Madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus (Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo.

Meaning of Nycticebus tardigradus from wikipedia

- named Nycticebus javanicus in this work. Later 19th-century authors also called the slow lorises Nycticebus, but most used the species name tardigradus (given...
- Red slender loris, L. tardigradus Dry Zone slender loris, L. tardigradus tardigradus Horton Plains slender loris, L. tardigradus nyctoceboides Genus Xanthonycticebus...
- The Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis) or northern slow loris is a strepsirrhine primate and a species of slow loris native to the Indian subcontinent...
- loris or mountain loris, Loris tardigradus nycticeboides Dry zone slender loris or lowland loris, Loris tardigradus tardigradus Gray slender loris, Loris lydekkeri****...
- lorises in one species, Nycticebus coucang, and considered other forms distinct at the subspecies level. Osman Hill thus listed Nycticebus coucang pygmaeus,...
- confusion during the 1800s when Boddaert's Tardigradus coucang was routinely mistaken for Carl Linnaeus' Lemur tardigradus – a species he had described in the...
- which he called Bradylemur tardigradus. In 1921, Oldfield Thomas named a second species of slow loris from Java, Nycticebus ornatus. In his 1971 review...
- Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nycticebus borne****. Nekaris, K.A.I.; Miard, P. (2020). "Nycticebus borne****". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species...
- reptiles, plant shoots, and fruit. The type species was named Lemur tardigradus by Linnaeus in 1758. The name Loris is first reported Georges-Louis Leclerc...
- (genus Nycticebus) within the family Lorisidae. Museum specimens of this animal had previously been identified as the Bornean slow loris (Nycticebus menagensis)...