Nycticebus bancanus

Lyon, 1906

Bangka Slow Loris

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Primates
Suborder : Strepsirrhini
Infraorder : Lorisiformes
Family : Lorisidae
Subfamily : Lorisinae
Genus : Nycticebus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Lyon, M.W., Jr. 1906-11-09. Notes on the slow lemurs. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 31(1494):527-538.

Original name as described

Nycticebus bancanus

Type material

USNM:MAMM:124907

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Klabat Bay, Bangka, Indonesia.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Indonesia

Taxonomy notes

split from N. menagensis, which was was previously included under N. coucang

Taxonomy notes citation

Munds, R.A., Nekaris, K.A.I., Ford, S.M. 2013. Taxonomy of the Bornean slow loris, with species Nycticebus kayak (Primates, Lorisidae). American Journal of Primatology 75(1):46-56. · Blair, M. E., Cao, G. T., López-Nandam, E. H., Veronese-Paniagua, D. A., Birchette, M. G., Kenyon, M., ... & Le, M. D. (2023). Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships and Unveiling Novel Genetic Diversity among Slow and Pygmy Lorises, including Resurrection of Xanthonycticebus intermedius. Genes, 14(3), 643.

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

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