Silvery greater galago
Species of primate
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The silvery greater galago (Otolemur crassicaudatus monteiri) is a nocturnal primate from the galago family. It is usually found in Brachystegia woodland, from Angola to Tanzania, western Kenya and Rwanda.[1]
| Silvery greater galago[1] | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
| Family: | Galagidae |
| Genus: | Otolemur |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | O. c. monteiri |
| Trinomial name | |
| Otolemur crassicaudatus monteiri Bartlett, 1863 | |
The species was separated from the brown greater galago by Colin Groves in 2001, including O. m. argentatus as a subspecies,[1] but both the IUCN and the American Society of Mammalogists retain it as a subspecies.[2][3]