Tufted gray langur

Tufted gray langur[1]
Tufted Gray Langur in Mudumalai National Park, Tamil Nadu, India.
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Semnopithecus
Species: S. priam
Binomial name
Semnopithecus priam
Blyth, 1844
Tufted Gray Langur range

The tufted gray langur (Semnopithecus priam) is an Old World monkey, one of the species of langurs. This, like other gray langurs, is a leaf-eating monkey. It is found in southeast India and Sri Lanka.[1] It is one of several Semnopithecus species named after characters from The Iliad, along with Semnopithecus hector and Semnopithecus ajax. There are two subspecies, Semnopithecus priam thersites in Sri Lanka and Semnopithecus priam priam in southeast India.

References

  1. ^ a b Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 175. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100699. 
  2. ^ Molur, S., Singh, M. & Kumar, A. (2008). Semnopithecus priam. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 January 2009.