Tarai Gray Langur

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name = Tarai Gray LangurMSW3 Groves|pages=174|id=12100697]
status = NT
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2007|assessors=Participants of CBSG CAMP workshop: Status of South Asian Primates |year=2004|id=39837|title=Semnopithecus entellus "ssp." hector|downloaded=02 August 2008]


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cercopithecidae
genus = "Semnopithecus"
species = "S. hector"
binomial = "Semnopithecus hector"
binomial_authority = Pocock, 1928

The Tarai Gray Langur ("Semnopithecus hector") is an Old World monkey, one of the species of langurs. This, like other gray langurs, is a leaf-eating monkey. It is found from Kumaun, India to the Hazaria District of Nepal. It is one of several "Semnopithecus" species named after characters from "The Iliad", along with "Semnopithecus ajax" and "Semnopithecus priam".

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