Eastern Hoolock Gibbon

Eastern Hoolock Gibbon

Taxobox
name = Eastern Hoolock Gibbon
status = VU
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2007 | assessors = Eudey, A. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group | year = 2000 | title = Bunopithecus hoolock "ssp." leuconedys | id = 39877 | downloaded = 2008-03-11]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Hylobatidae
genus = "Hoolock"
species = "H. leuconedys"
binomial = "Hoolock leuconedys"
binomial_authority = (Groves, 2005)
The Eastern Hoolock Gibbon ("Hoolock leuconedys") is a primate from the Hylobatidae (gibbon) family. The species is found in Myanmar east of the Chindwin River, and in south west Yunnan. [cite journal | author=Groves, C. P. | year= 1967 | title = Geographic variation in the hoolock or white-browed gibbon ("Hylobates hoolock harlan" 1834). | journal = Folia Primatologica | volume=7 | pages=276–283]

Classification

Mootnick and Groves [cite journal | author = Mootnick, A. R. and C. P. Groves | year = 2005 | title=A new generic name for the hoolock gibbon (Hylobatidae) | journal = Int. J. Primatol | volume = 26 | pages = 971–976 | doi=10.1007/s10764-005-5332-4] stated that the name "Bunopithecus" was not valid, and placed it in a new genus, "Hoolock". This genus was argued to contain two distinct species which were previously thought to be subspecies: "Hoolock hoolock" and "Hoolock leuconedys". [cite journal | author = Mootnick, A. R. | year = 2006 | title = Gibbon (Hylobatidae) species identification recommended for rescue or breeding centers | journal = Primate Conserv | volume = 21 | pages = 103–138 | doi = 10.1896/0898-6207.21.1.103]

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