| Zanzibar bushbaby[1] | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Galagidae |
| Genus: | Galago |
| Species: | G. zanzibaricus |
| Binomial name | |
| Galago zanzibaricus Matschie, 1893 |
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The Zanzibar bushbaby (Galago zanzibaricus) is a primate of the Galagidae family. An adult typically weighs 100–300 grams and is 34–39.5 centimetres long (3.5–10.5 oz, 13.5–15.5 in). Like other species of galagos, their diet consists mainly of fruit.[citation needed]
For a time, this species and Prince Demidoff's bushbaby were removed from the genus Galago and placed into the new genus Galagoides. Recent work in molecular systemics have shown that this removal was erroneous, the two species have been returned to the Galago genus, and Galagoides made defunct.[citation needed]
There are two subspecies of this bushbaby:
- Galago zanzibaricus zanzibaricus
- Galago zanzibaricus udzungwensis
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Wikispecies has information related to: Zanzibar bushbaby |
- ^ Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 126. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.
- ^ Butynski, T. M. M., De Jong, Y., Perkin, A., Bearder, S. & Honess, P. (2008). Galagoides zanzibaricus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 1 January 2009.
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