Central African potto | |
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Specimen at the Royal Museum for Central Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
Family: | Lorisidae |
Genus: | Perodicticus |
Species: | P. edwardsi
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Binomial name | |
Perodicticus edwardsi Bouvier, 1879
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The Central African potto (Perodicticus edwardsi) is a species of nocturnal strepsirrhine primate. It is found in Central Africa. It is also known as Milne-Edwards's potto, after Alphonse Milne-Edwards.