Black Crested Gibbon

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Black Crested Gibbon[1]
Conservation status
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)[3], 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

  1. ^ 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. 
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Walker's Primates of the World by Ronald M. Nowak, Russell A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands, and William R. Konstant (1999) p.168

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