Trachypithecus (Kasi) vetulus
Authors/Creators
Description
Trachypithecus (Kasi) vetulus (Erxleben 1777)
Cercopithecus vetulus Erxleben 1777, Systema Regni Animalis: 24.
Type Locality: Sri Lanka, Hill country of South.
Vernacular Names: Purple-faced Langur.
Synonyms: Trachypithecus (Kasi) albinus (Kelaart 1851); Trachypithecus (Kasi) senex (Erxleben 1777).
Subspecies::
Subspecies Trachypithecus (Kasi) vetulus subsp. vetulus Erxleben 1777
Subspecies Trachypithecus (Kasi) vetulus subsp. monticola Kelaart 1850
Subspecies Trachypithecus (Kasi) vetulus subsp. nestor Bennett 1833
Subspecies Trachypithecus (Kasi) vetulus subsp. philbricki Phillips 1927
Distribution: Sri Lanka.
Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Threatened as Presbytis senex; IUCN – Endangered as T. v. vetulus, T. v. monticola, T. v. nestor, and T. v. philbricki.
Discussion: T. vetulus species group. Type of subgenus Kasi; see Szalay and Delson (1979:402). On the use of vetulus, instead of the previously more commonly used senex, for the species, see Napier (1985:72).
Notes
Files
Files
(1.6 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:c2f98802d8f23b521069cd6c472d4d07
|
1.6 kB | Download |
System files
(12.1 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:2f2f473b04935af02f0b833b158a712a
|
12.1 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/B0294F6FEAA127D846D57464E1129452 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/AC666C0B4EBB36D37AE2775E4297214A (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231542152 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Erxleben
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Primates
- Family
- Cercopithecidae
- Genus
- Trachypithecus
- Species
- vetulus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Trachypithecus (Kasi) vetulus (Erxleben, 1777) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Erxleben, J. C. P. 1777. Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates, cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis I. Mammalia. Weygandianis, Lipsiae, 636 pp.
- Szalay, F. S., and E. Delson. 1979. Evolutionary history of the primates. Academic Press, New York, 580 pp.
- Napier, P. H. 1985. Catalogue of Primates in the British Museum (Natural History) and elsewhere in the British Isles. Part 3: Family Cercopithecidae, subfamily Colobinae. Publications of the British Museum of Natural History, 894: 1, 3 - 111.