Nomascus siki

(Delacour, 1951)

Southern White-cheeked 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
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Delacour, J. 1951. La systematique des gibbons indochinois. Mammalia 15(3):118-123.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.1951.15.3.118

Original name as described

Hylobates concolor siki

Other common names

Siki Gibbon · Southern White-cheeked Gibbon

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1933.4.1.6

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Vietnam, Thua Luu.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Laos · Vietnam

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

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