Nomascus nasutus

(Künckel d'Herculais, 1884)

Eastern Black Crested Gibbon

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Sci. et. Nat. 2: 86

Original name as described

Hylobates nasutus

Other common names

Cao Vit Black Crested Gibbon · Cao Vit Crested Gibbon

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1884-2389

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Vietnam, Along (= Ha Long) Bay.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

China · Vietnam

Taxonomy notes

split from N. concolor

Taxonomy notes citation

Thinh, V.N., Mootnick, A.R., Thanh, V.G., Nadler, T., & Roos, C. 2010. A new species of crested gibbon, from the central Annamite mountain range. Vietnamese Journal of Primatology 4: 1-12.

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

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