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Hylobates lar

Description

Hylobates lar (Linnaeus 1771)

[Homo] lar Linnaeus 1771, Mantissa Plantarum: 521.

Type Locality: Malaysia, Malacca (restricted by Kloss, 1929).

Vernacular Names: Lar Gibbon.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Hylobates lar subsp. lar Linnaeus 1771

Subspecies Hylobates lar subsp. carpenteri Groves 1968

Subspecies Hylobates lar subsp. entelloides I. Geoffroy 1842

Subspecies Hylobates lar subsp. vestitus Miller 1942

Subspecies Hylobates lar subsp. yunnanensis Ma and Y. Wang 1986

Distribution: Between the Salween and Mekong Rivers from S Yunnan (China) south to the Mun River (Thailand) and the Mudah and Thepha Rivers on the Malay Peninsula; S Malay Peninsula south of the Perak and Kelantan Rivers; Sumatra (Indonesia) NW of Lake Toba and the Singkil River; E and S Burma.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered as H. l. yunnanensis, Lower Risk (nt) as H. l. lar, H. l. carpenteri, H. l. entelloides, and H. l. vestitus.

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Primates, pp. 111-184 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 179, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Primates
Family
Hylobatidae
Genus
Hylobates
Species
lar
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hylobates lar (Linnaeus, 1771) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Kloss, C. B. 1929. Some remarks on the gibbons, with the description of a new subspecies. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1929: 113 - 127.
  • Miller, G. S., Jr. 1942. Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition, 1936 - 1939. Part V. Mammals collected by Frederick A. Ulmer, Jr. on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 94: 107 - 165.