Trachypithecus melamera
(D. G. Elliot, 1909)
Shan Langur
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Primates |
| Suborder | : Haplorhini |
| Infraorder | : Simiiformes |
| Parvorder | : Catarrhini |
| Superfamily | : Cercopithecoidea |
| Family | : Cercopithecidae |
| Subfamily | : Colobinae |
| Tribe | : Presbytini |
| Genus | : Trachypithecus |
Species status
Authority citation
Elliot, D.G. 1909-09-01. Descriptions of apparently new species and subspecies of monkeys of the genera Callicebus, Lagothrix, Papio, Pithecus, Cercopithecus, Erythroccbus, and Presbytis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)4(21):244-274.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22097646Original name as described
Presbytis melamera
Other common names
Shan State Langur
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1888.12.1.64
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/1ce7eff8-31d5-40a6-bfdc-9c7f2e58de9d https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/dcc77949-51cd-450b-a7f3-54d85077c625Type locality
Cadu Ciaung, Bhamo, N Burma.
Biogeographic realm
Indomalaya
Country distribution
Myanmar · China
Taxonomy notes
split from T. phayrei
Taxonomy notes citation
Roos, C., Helgen, K. M., Miguez, R. P., Thant, N. M. L., Lwin, N., Lin, A. K., Lin, A., Yi, K. M., Soe, P., Hein, Z. M., Myint, M. N. N., Ahmed, T., Chetry, D., Urh, M., Veatch, E. G., Duncan, N., Kamminga, P., Chua, M. A. H., Yao, L., Matauschek, C., Meyer, D., Liu, Z.-J., Li, M., Nadler, T., Fan, P.-F., Quyet, L. K., Hofreiter, M., Zinner, D., & Momberg, F. (2020). Mitogenomic phylogeny of the Asian colobine genus Trachypithecus with special focus on Trachypithecus phayrei (Blyth, 1847) and description of a new species. Zoological Research, 41(6), 656-669.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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