Nycticebus bengalensis

(de Lacépède, 1800)

Bengal 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
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Lacépède, B.G.É. de. 1800. Classification des oiseaux et des mammifères. Séances des écoles normales, recueillies par des sténographes, et revues par les professeurs 9(appendix):1-86.

Original name as described

Lori bengalensis

Other common names

Ashy Slow Loris · Northern Slow Loris

Type locality

India, Bengal.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

India · Bangladesh · China · Myanmar · Vietnam · Laos · Cambodia · Thailand · Malaysia?

IUCN Red List status

Endangered

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001062

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Nycticebus incanus

O. Thomas, 1921

Family

Lorisidae

Root name

incanus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1881.12.2.1

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/96b0d122-19fd-4d2b-8d3a-61d25bb1b349 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/f03b0dd6-c171-4f03-9eac-fa8f7262d00d

Authority page

627

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26196810

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

Nycticebus cinereus

A. Milne-Edwards, 1867

Family

Lorisidae

Root name

cinereus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN-ZM-MO-1862-1601

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1862-1601

Authority page

11

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13961314

Authority publication

Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle

Name usages

Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

Nycticebus bengalensis

Lesson, 1827

Family

Lorisidae

Root name

bengalensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

69

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207537

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

  1. Lesson (1827:69, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207537) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  2. Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)
  3. Smith & Xie (2008:159) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)
  4. Mittermeier, Rylands & Wilson (2013:218) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59513)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #39758) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #39758) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001062) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  8. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/39758/179045340) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Lori bengalensis

(de Lacépède, 1800)

Family

Lorisidae

Root name

bengalensis

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

68

Authority publication

Séances des écoles normales, recueillies par des sténographes, et revues par les professeurs

Loris bengalensis

(G. Fischer, 1804)

Family

Lorisidae

Root name

bengalensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

preoccupied

Authority page

30

Authority publication

Frankfurt am Main

Nycticebus tenasserimensis

D. G. Elliot, 1913

Family

Lorisidae

Root name

tenasserimensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

25

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40602501

Authority publication

New York

Name usages

Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

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