Diani-Galago

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Diani-Galago
Systematics
Order : Primates (Primates)
Subordination : Wet-nose primates (Strepsirrhini)
Partial order : Lori-like (Lorisiformes)
Family : Galagos (Galagonidae)
Genre : Paragalago
Type : Diani-Galago
Scientific name
Paragalago cocos
( Heller , 1912)

The Diani-Galago ( Paragalago cocos , syn .: Galagoides cocos ) is a small primate species from the family of the Galagos (Galagonidae). It occurs in East Africa in evergreen forests of the coastal regions of Kenya from Malindi to the border with Tanzania , in the northeastern corner of Tanzania and in gallery forests along the lower reaches of the Tana .

features

The Diani-Galago is a cryptic species , which outwardly hardly differs from the Zanzibar-Galago ( Galago zanzibaricus ) and the Grant-Galago ( Galago granti ). The distribution area of ​​the Zanzibar-Galago joins that of the Diani-Galagos to the south. The Grant Galago occurs from southern Tanzania to southern Mozambique. All three species were previously grouped under the name Galago zanzibaricus to form a single polytypic species.

The three types can be distinguished above all on the basis of their different sounds. The snout protrudes more in the Diani-Galago than in the other two species. It is very dark, almost black, in the other species rather grayish. The ears are dark behind in the Diani-Galago and the Sansibar-Galago, in the Grant-Galago the rear is black. In the Diani-Galago they are rarely longer than 38 mm, in the Sansibar-Galago the maximum length is 35 or 33 mm (subspecies G. zanzibaricus udzungwensis ), in the Grant-Galago, whose ears are wider than those of the other species, the length of the ears is at 37 mm. The back hair in the Diani-Galago is approx. 10 mm long and has yellow-brown tips, in the Sansibar-Galago the hair is 8 to 9 mm long with cinnamon-colored, red-brown or yellow-brown tips ( G. zanzibaricus udzungwensis ), in the Grant-Galago approx. 12 mm long with yellow-brown tips that shimmer slightly pink. The tail of the Diani-Galago is covered with dense, soft fur, the hairs of which are about 14 mm long. In some specimens it has the same yellow-brown color as the back, in others the tail end is darker. The tail of the Zanzibar Galagos is only sparsely covered with wiry hair, that of the Grant Galagos bushy with dense hair, darker in color than on the back and in some specimens with a white tip.

Systematics

The Galagos the Kenyan Coast region were the US in 1912 Zoologist Edmund Heller as galago Moholi cocos described and thus as the subspecies mohol bushbaby ( Galago Moholi assigned). In 1913 Daniel Giraud Elliot raised them to the rank of an independent species as Galago cocos , but later assigned them as a subspecies to the Somalia Galago ( Galago gallarum ) or the Zanzibar Galago, or synonymized with the Zanzibar Galago . Only recently have they been seen again as an independent species belonging to the Paragalago genus .

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