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| | Class: | Mammalia
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| | Order: | Primates
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| | Family: | Lorisidae
| | Subfamily: | Perodicticinae
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| | Genus: | Pseudopotto
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| | Species: | P. martini
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| | | [[{{{diversity_link}}}|Diversity]] | | {{{diversity}}} | | Binomial name | Pseudopotto martini
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| | Synonyms | | {{{synonyms}}} | The False Potto (Pseudopotto martini) is a strepsirrhine primate from the Lorisidae family, very similar in anatomy and appearance to the Potto (Perodicticus potto). The classification of the False Potto into its own genus (Pseudopotto) and species was proposed in 1996 by Jeffrey Schwartz of the American Museum of Natural History. Schwartz had been studying skeletons labelled Perodicticus potto at the University of Zurich when he realised that two of them had characteristics different from the Potto skeletons. They lacked the Potto's distinctive spiny vertebrae and had longer premolars, shorter third molars and a slightly longer tail. The skeletons were also much smaller than those of most Pottos, but had been collected in a region where the largest Potto individuals are found. Schwartz named the species martini in honour of Robert Martin, a leader in prosimian study who taught at the University of Zurich. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anenomes) Placozoa (trichoplax) Subregnum Bilateria (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ...
Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicatas Ascidiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with...
Orders Subclass Multituberculata (extinct) Plagiaulacida Cimolodonta Subclass Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Subclass Triconodonta (extinct) Subclass Eutheria (includes extinct ancestors)/Placentalia (excludes extinct ancestors) Afrosoricida Artiodactyla Carnivora Cetacea Chiroptera Cimolesta (extinct) Creodonta (extinct) Condylarthra (extinct) Dermoptera Desmostylia (extinct) Embrithopoda (extinct) Hyracoidea Insectivora Lagomorpha Litopterna (extinct) Macroscelidea Mesonychia (extinct) Notoungulata (extinct) Perissodactyla Pholidota Plesiadapiformes...
[[{{{diversity_link}}}|Diversity]] {{{diversity}}} Binomial name {{{binomial}}} Trinomial name {{{trinomial}}} Type Species {{{type_species}}} Families * 15, See classification [[Image:{{{range_map}}}|{{{range_map_width}}}|]] Synonyms {{{synonyms}}} A primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans. ...
Genera Arctocebus Perodicticus Pseudopotto Loris Nycticebus Lorisidae (or sometimes Loridae) is a family of strepsirrhine primates. ...
Genera Perodicticus Arctocebus Pseudopotto Perodicticinae is the subfamily of Loridae that includes the four species of African primates as shown below. ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
Trinomial nomenclature is a taxonomic naming system that extends the standard system of binomial nomenclature by adding a third taxon. ...
In scientific classification, a type is a specimen or description that corresponds to a taxon (a group of organisms), and helps to identify which organisms may be referred to with that name. ...
In scientific classification, synonymy is the existence of multiple systematic names to label the same organism. ...
Families Cheirogaleidae Lemuridae Megaladapidae Indridae Daubentoniidae (Aye-aye) Loridae Galagonidae The Strepsirrhini clade is one of the two suborders of primates. ...
[[{{{diversity_link}}}|Diversity]] {{{diversity}}} Binomial name {{{binomial}}} Trinomial name {{{trinomial}}} Type Species {{{type_species}}} Families * 15, See classification [[Image:{{{range_map}}}|{{{range_map_width}}}|]] Synonyms {{{synonyms}}} A primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans. ...
Genera Arctocebus Perodicticus Pseudopotto Loris Nycticebus Lorisidae (or sometimes Loridae) is a family of strepsirrhine primates. ...
Binomial name Perodicticus potto (P.L.S. Müller, 1766) The Potto (Perodicticus potto) is a strepsirrhine primate from the Lorisidae family. ...
In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. ...
In biology, a species is the basic unit of biodiversity. ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
The American Museum of Natural History is a landmark of Manhattans Upper West Side in New York, USA, at 79th Street and Central Park West. ...
The University of Zurich (in German: Universität Zürich) is the largest university of Switzerland, in the city of Zurich. ...
A diagram of a thoracic vertebra. ...
The premolar teeth or bicuspids are transitional teeth located between the canine and molar teeth. ...
A molar is the fourth kind of tooth in mammals. ...
Prosimians are the most primitive extant primates; they represent forms that were ancestral to monkeys, apes and humans. ...
However, some scientists -- notably E. Sarmiento and S. Bearder -- have disputed the new classification, saying that the differences between Schwartz's specimens and Perodicticus are not significant enough to warrant it.
The only known specimens of the False Potto were collected in Cameroon. So far the animal does not appear to have been studied in the wild, and nothing is yet known about its behaviour.
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