Tufted Gray Langur

Tufted Gray Langur

Taxobox
name = Tufted Gray LangurMSW3 Groves|pages=175|id=12100699]
status = NT
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2007|assessors=Eudey, A., "et al"|year=2000|id=39839|title=Semnopithecus entellus "ssp." priam|downloaded=02 August 2008]


image_caption = Tufted Gray Langur in Mudumalai National Park, Tamil Nadu, India.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cercopithecidae
genus = "Semnopithecus"
species = "S. priam"
binomial = "Semnopithecus priam"
binomial_authority = Blyth, 1844

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. It is one of several "Semnopithecus" species named after characters from "The Iliad", along with "Semnopithecus hector" and "Semnopithecus ajax".

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