Hylobates muelleri

W. C. L. Martin, 1841

Southern Gray Gibbon

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Primates
Suborder : Haplorhini
Infraorder : Simiiformes
Parvorder : Catarrhini
Superfamily : Hominoidea
Family : Hylobatidae
Genus : Hylobates

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Martin, W.C.L. 1841. A General Introduction to the Natural History of Mammiferous Animals, with a Particular View of the Physical History of Man, and the more closely allied Genera of the Order Quadrumana, or Monkeys. Wright and Co., London, 545 pp.

Original name as described

Hylobates Mülleri

Other common names

Bornean Gray Gibbon · Gray Gibbon · Müller's Gibbon · Müller's Bornean Gibbon · South Bornean Gray Gibbon

Type material

RMNH.MAM.42117.a, RMNH.MAM.42117.b, RMNH.MAM.42134, RMNH.MAM.42135, RMNH.MAM.42144

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

Indonesia, Kalimantan. Restricted by M. Lyon in 1911 to south-eastern Borneo.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Indonesia

Taxonomy notes

previously included H. abbotti and H. funereus

Taxonomy notes citation

Anandam, M.V., Groves, C.P., Molur, S., Rawson, B.M., Richardson, M.C., Russon, A.E., Singleton, I., and Williamson, E.A. 2013. Family Hylobatidae (Hoolocks, Hylobates, Nomascus & Symphalangus). In: Mittermeier, R,A., Rylands,A,B., & Wilson, D,E (ed.), Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol 3. Primates, pp. 779-791. Primates. Lynx Edicions. Barcelona. · Roos, C. (2016). Phylogeny and classification of gibbons (hylobatidae). In Evolution of Gibbons and Siamang (pp. 151-164). Springer New York.

IUCN Red List status

Endangered

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