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Hylobates lar

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Description

Hylobates lar (Linnaeus, 1771). Mantissa Plantarum, p. 521.

TYPE LOCALITY: Malaysia, Malacca (restricted by Kloss, 1929).

DISTRIBUTION: Between the Salween and Mekong rivers from S Yunnan (China) south to the Mun R. (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 R.; E and S Burma.

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

SYNONYMS: albimana, carpenteri, entelloides, longimana, varius, variegatus, vestitus, yunnanensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Hylobates.

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 275, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353122

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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. Groves, 1993

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.