Lorisidae

family of mammals
Taxon taxon Q368623
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Summary

Lorisidae is a taxon[1]. Lorisidae ranks in the top 0.73% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,866 views/month, #1,417 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Lorisiformes[4]
  • Taxon name: Lorisidae[5]
  • Commons category: Lorisidae[6]
  • Taxonomic type: slender loris[7]
  • Temporal range start: Early Miocene[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lorisidae[9]
  • Commons gallery: Lorisidae[10]
  • Described by source: Nordisk familjebok[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12]
  • Different from: Loris[13]
  • Diel cycle: nocturnal[14]

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Identifiers

Lorisidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 71380[15]. Lorisidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9461[16]. Lorisidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1649[17]. Recorded GBIF taxon ID include 3239561[18] and 9424[19]. Recorded ITIS TSN include 572771[20] and 943791[21].

Why It Matters

Lorisidae has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Lorisidae is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . babel.hathitrust.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . ZooBank. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [16] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [17] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [18] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [14] ↑ . Evolution and spectral tuning of visual pigments in birds and mammals. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Itis tsn → 572771, 943791
    Gnd id → 4681090-0
    Sitelink count → 52
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'avk', 'az', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'ceb', 'commons', 'cs',
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Itis tsn: 943791, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290800|batch #290800]]"
  2. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i48801
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 02500986-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Nordisk familjebok, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
    Parent taxon → Lorisiformes
    Instance of → taxon
    Instance of → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 3359, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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