Carpenter's lar gibbon

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Carpenter's lar gibbon
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Hylobatidae
Genus: Hylobates
Species:
H. lar
Subspecies:
H. l. carpenteri
Trinomial name
Hylobates lar carpenteri
Groves, 1968

Carpenter's lar gibbon, Hylobates lar carpenteri, is an endangered subspecies of white-handed gibbon, also known as the lar gibbon.[2][3] It is listed as an endangered species because it is believed to have undergone a decline of more than 50% in the prior three generations due to loss of forest habitat and loss of mature individuals to hunting.[1] The subspecific name honors primatologist Clarence R. Carpenter.[2]

The subspecies is distinguished by sharply distinct dark and light color forms, both having a ring of white hair around the face, with hands and feet white sometimes as far as the wrists and ankles, and the hair much longer than in other subspecies.[2] The dark form is very dark chocolate brown, the tips of the hairs being blackish and their bases silvery-brown, whereas the light form is creamy-white, with the basal one-quarter to one-third of the hairs light gray.[2] Its range is confined to northern and part of northeastern Thailand.[2] In the southwest part of its range, its distribution abuts that of the pileated gibbon, Hylobates pileatus.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Brockelman, W.; Geissmann, T. (2020). "Hylobates lar ssp. carpenteri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T39882A17991038. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Groves, Colin P. 1968. A new subspecies of white-handed gibbon from northern Thailand, Hylobates lar carpenteri new subspecies. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 81:625-628; 628. URL: https://archive.org/details/biostor-82270, accessed 8 Jan 2018.
  3. ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). "Order Primates". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 179–180. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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