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Bengal slow loris

(Nycticebus bengalensis)

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Description

It is very similar to Nycticebus coucang,from which it is distinguished by the absence of "braces" that unite the rhomboidal ocular spots (in this species little extended or hardly sketched) to the brown band that runs through the spine.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Mammalia
Order:Primates
Family:Lorisidae
Genus:Nycticebus
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