Northern White-cheeked Gibbon

Taxobox
name = Northern White-cheeked GibbonMSW3 Groves|id=12100782]

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image_caption = "Nomascus leucogenys" at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago
status = CR
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Eudey, A. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group | year = 2000 | title = Nomascus leucogenys | id = 39778 | downloaded = 2007-02-21]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
superfamilia = Hominoidea
familia = Hylobatidae
genus = "Nomascus"
species = "N. leucogenys"
binomial = "Nomascus leucogenys"
binomial_authority = (Ogilby, 1840)
synonyms ="Hylobates leucogenys" (Ogilby, 1840)

The Northern White-cheeked Gibbon ("Nomascus leucogenys") is a species of gibbon native to Vietnam, Laos, and the Yunnan province of China. It is closely related to the Southern White-cheeked Gibbon ("Nomascus siki"), with which it was previously considered conspecific. The females of the two species are virtually indistinguishable in appearance.cite journal | last = Geissmann | first = Thomas | journal = International Zoo News | title = Gibbon systematics and species identification | volume = 42 | url = http://gibbons.de/main/papers/pdf_files/1995gibbon_systematics_big.pdf | date=December 1995 | accessdate = 2008-08-15 | format=PDF | pages = 472]

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