Indochinese Lutung

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Indochinese Lutung[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Trachypithecus
Species group: T. cristatus
Species: T. germaini
Binomial name
Trachypithecus germaini
(Milne-Edwards, 1876)

The Indochinese Lutung (Trachypithecus germaini) is a lutung native to Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, and Vietnam.[1] The Old World monkey was previously included in Trachypithecus cristatus[1] and Trachypithecus villosus.[2]

Two subspecies are recognized:[1]

  • Trachypithecus germaini germaini
  • Trachypithecus germaini caudalis

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d 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, 176. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ a b Eudey, A. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group (2000). Trachypithecus villosus ssp. germaini. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2007. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.
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