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Perodicticinae

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Perodicticinae is a subfamily of the family Lorisidae. It includes five species of African primates as shown under taxonomy below.

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Parent taxon
Lorisidae
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taxon name
Perodicticinae
taxon rank
subfamily
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Perodicticinae is a subfamily of the family Lorisidae. It includes five species of African primates as shown under taxonomy below.

They have a vestigial tail and index finger. The snout is pointed and the ears and eyes are large. The coat is dense, brown and woolly.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Perodicticinae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.