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- Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Lorises and Pottos
- Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
- Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Lorises and Pottos
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Evolution, Morphology and the Fossil Record
- 2 Sluggards and Drunkards?
- 3 What We Know (and Don’t Know) About the Fossil Records of Lorisids
- 4 Outliers
- 5 Molecular Advances in Lorisid Taxonomy and Phylogeny
- 6 The Toothcomb of Karanisia clarki
- 7 The Soft-Tissue Anatomy of the Highly Derived Hand of Perodicticus Relative to the More Generalised Nycticebus
- 8 Making Scents of Olfactory Sensitivity in Lorises and Pottos
- 9 Allometric and Phylogenetic Diversity in Lorisiform Orbit Orientation
- 10 The Evolution of Social Organisation in Lorisiformes
- 11 Biomechanics of Loris Locomotion
- 12 What Role Did Gum-Feeding Play in the Evolution of the Lorises?
- Part II Ecology and Captive Management
- Part III Research, Trade and Conservation
- References
- Index
7 - The Soft-Tissue Anatomy of the Highly Derived Hand of Perodicticus Relative to the More Generalised Nycticebus
from Part I - Evolution, Morphology and the Fossil Record
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 February 2020
- Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Lorises and Pottos
- Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
- Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Lorises and Pottos
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Evolution, Morphology and the Fossil Record
- 2 Sluggards and Drunkards?
- 3 What We Know (and Don’t Know) About the Fossil Records of Lorisids
- 4 Outliers
- 5 Molecular Advances in Lorisid Taxonomy and Phylogeny
- 6 The Toothcomb of Karanisia clarki
- 7 The Soft-Tissue Anatomy of the Highly Derived Hand of Perodicticus Relative to the More Generalised Nycticebus
- 8 Making Scents of Olfactory Sensitivity in Lorises and Pottos
- 9 Allometric and Phylogenetic Diversity in Lorisiform Orbit Orientation
- 10 The Evolution of Social Organisation in Lorisiformes
- 11 Biomechanics of Loris Locomotion
- 12 What Role Did Gum-Feeding Play in the Evolution of the Lorises?
- Part II Ecology and Captive Management
- Part III Research, Trade and Conservation
- References
- Index
Summary
The African lorisid subfamily Perodicticinae includes the slow-moving angwantibos (Arctocebus) and the pottos (Perodicticus) (Lambert, 2014), the focal taxon of this chapter. The distinguishing physical features of this subfamily include their short tails and vestigial manual second digit (Charles-Dominique, 1977a). Perodicticus potto, first described by Bosman in 1704 and further characterised by Müller in 1776 (Bosman, 1705; Müller, 1773; Smeenk et al., 2006), was originally placed in the genus Nycticebus by Geoffroy, but the subsequent rediscovery of the animal in Sierra Leone by Bennett in the early nineteenth century became the basis for his naming the genus Perodicticus (Bennett, 1831; Hill, 1953a; Smeenk et al., 2006).
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