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Pygathrix bieti Milne-Edwards 1897

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Description

Pygathrix bieti Milne-Edwards, 1897. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 3:157.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Yunnan, left bank of upper Mekong, Kiape, 28°25'N, 98°55'E, a day's journey south of Atentse.

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of left bank of upper Mekong (China).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

COMMENTS: Regarded by Groves (1970:569) as a subspecies of roxellana, but regarded as a full species by Peng et al. (1988).

Notes

Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Primates, pp. 243-277 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 272, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353122

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Milne-Edwards
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Primates
Family
Cercopithecidae
Genus
Pygathrix
Species
bieti
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pygathrix bieti Milne-Edwards, 1897 sec. Groves, 1993

References

  • Groves, C. P. 1970. The forgotten leaf-eaters, and the phylogeny of the Colobinae. Pp. 555 - 587, in Old World Monkeys: Evolution, systematics and behavior (J. R. Napier and P. H. Napier, eds.). Academic Press, London, 660 pp.
  • Peng Yan-zhang, Ye Zhi-zhang, Zhang Yao-ping, and Pan Ru-liang. 1988. [The classification of snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus spp.) based on gross morphological characters.] Zoological Research, 9: 239 - 248 (in Chinese).