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title: "Bengal Slow Loris"
description: "Nycticebus bengalensis — Mammiferi. The Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis) or northern slow loris is a strepsirrhine primate and a species of slow loris native to the Bangladesh, Northeast India, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Vietnam, southern China, and Thailand."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/bengal-slow-loris
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bengal Slow Loris

> Nycticebus bengalensis — Mammiferi. The Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis) or northern slow loris is a strepsirrhine primate and a species of slow loris native to the  Bangladesh, Northeast India, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Vietnam, southern China, and Thailand.

- Scientific name: *Nycticebus bengalensis*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammiferi)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `jungle` (Giungla)
- iNaturalist observations: 360
- Wikidata: [Q817174](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q817174)
- iNaturalist taxon: [54863](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/54863)

## Names

- en: Bengal Slow Loris
- de: Bengalischer Plumplori
- es: Loris perezoso de Bengala
- fr: Loris lent du Bengale
- pl: Kukang bengalski

## Countries with the most observations

TH (131), CN (71), IN (35), BD (24), MM (11), KH (3), VN (3)

## Summary

The Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis) or northern slow loris is a strepsirrhine primate and a species of slow loris native to the  Bangladesh, Northeast India, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Vietnam, southern China, and Thailand.  Its geographic range is larger than that of any other slow loris species.  Considered a subspecies of the Sunda slow loris (N. coucang) until 2001, phylogenetic analysis suggests that the Bengal slow loris is most closely related to the Sunda slow loris.  However, some individuals in both species have mitochondrial DNA sequences that resemble those of the other species, due to introgressive…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_slow_loris

## Photo

![Bengal Slow Loris](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bengal-slow-loris/medium.jpg)

Photo: James Eaton · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/252382204

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/bengal-slow-loris?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).