Black Crested Gibbon

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Black Crested Gibbon^[1]

Conservation status

Endangered (IUCN) ^[2]

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Superfamily:	Hominoidea
Family:	Hylobatidae
Genus:	Nomascus
Species:	N. concolor

Binomial name

Nomascus concolor
(Harlan, 1826)

Subspecies

Nomascus concolor concolor
Nomascus concolor lu
Nomascus concolor jingdongensis
Nomascus concolor furvogaster

The Black Crested Gibbon (Nomascus concolor), also known as the Crested Gibbon, the Black Gibbon, the White-cheeked Gibbon, or the Concolor Gibbon, is an endangered species of gibbon found in India, the Malay archipelago and Indochina. There are 4 subspecies.

[edit] References

^ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 180. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
^ Eudey, A. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group (2000). Nomascus concolor. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2006-11-21.