White-cheeked Crested Gibbon

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White-cheeked Crested Gibbon
Nomascus leucogenys at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago
Nomascus leucogenys at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Superfamily: Hominoidea
Family: Hylobatidae
Genus: Nomascus
Species: N. leucogenys
Binomial name
Nomascus leucogenys
(Ogilby, 1840)
Subspecies
  • Nomascus leucogenys leucogenys - Northern White-cheeked Crested Gibbon
  • Nomascus leucogenys siki - Southern White-cheeked Crested Gibbon
Synonyms

Hylobates leucogenys (Ogilby, 1840)

The White-cheeked Crested Gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) is a species of gibbon native to Yunnan, Vietnam and Laos. There are two subspecies.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Eudey, A. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group (2000). Nomascus leucogenys. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-02-21.