Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Order Primates Linnaeus, 1758 - primates
     Family Loridae Gray, 1821 - lorises, pottos, and galagos see Family Lorisidae Gray, 1821, orth. cons.
       Genus Perodicticus Bennett, 1831 - potto
         Perodicticus potto (P.L.S. Müller, in Linnaeus, 1766) - potto