Red slender loris

Red slender loris
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Strepsirrhini
Family:	Lorisidae
Genus:	Loris
Species:	L. tardigradus
Binomial name
	Loris tardigradus; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies
	L. tardigradus nycticeboides (Hill, 1942); L. tardigradus tardigradus (L., 1758); L. tardigradus parvus (Hill, 1942);
	Southwestern Red Slender Loris Northwestern Red Slender Loris (overlaps with Southwestern Red Slender Loris) Highland Slender Loris
Synonyms
	List Arachnocebus lori Lesson, 1840 ; Lemur ceylonicus Fischer, 1804 ; Lemur tardigradus Linnaeus, 1758 ; Loris ceylonicus Fischer, 1804 ; Loris gracilis subsp. zeylanicus Lydekker, 1905 ; Loris gracilis É.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1796 ; Loris lydekkerianus subsp. nycticeboides Hill, 1942 ; Loris tardigradus subsp. nyctoceboides Hill, 1942 ; Loris zeylanicus Lydekker, 1905 ; Nycticebus tardigradus (Linnaeus, 1758) ; Stenops gracilis (Geoffroy, 1796) ; Stenops tardigradus (Linnaeus, 1758) ; Tardigradus loris Boddaert, 1785 ; Tardigradus tardigradus (Linnaeus, 1758) ; ;

The red slender loris (Loris tardigradus) is a small, nocturnal strepsirrhine primate native to the rainforests of Sri Lanka. This is No. 6 of the 10 focal species and No. 22 of the 100 EDGE mammal species worldwide considered the most evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered.