Zanzibar Bushbaby

Taxobox
name = Zanzibar BushbabyMSW3 Groves|pages=126]
status = LC
trend = unknown
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006|assessors=Primate Specialist Group|year=1996|id=8790|title=Galago zanzibaricus|downloaded=11 May 2006]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Galagidae
genus = "Galago"
species = "G. zanzibaricus"
binomial = "Galago zanzibaricus"
binomial_authority = Matschie, 1893

The Zanzibar Bushbaby ("Galago zanzibaricus") is a primate of the Galagidae family. An adult typically weighs 100–300 grams and is 34–39.5 centimetres long (3.5–10.5 oz, 13.5–15.5 in). Like other species of galagos, their diet consists mainly of fruit.

For a time, this species and Prince Demidoff's Galago were removed from the genus "Galago" and placed into the new genus "Galagoides". Recent work in molecular systemics have shown that this removal was erroneous, the two species have been returned to the "Galago" genus, and "Galagoides" made defunct.

There are two subspecies of this bushbaby:
*"Galago zanzibaricus zanzibaricus"
*"Galago zanzibaricus cocos"

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