Mentawai langur

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Mentawai langur[1]
Presbytis potenziani imported from iNaturalist photo 71151959 on 21 November 2020.jpg

Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Presbytis
Species:
P. potenziani
Binomial name
Presbytis potenziani
(Bonaparte, 1856)
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Mentawai langur range

The Mentawai langur (Presbytis potenziani) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is endemic to the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.[2] The Siberut langur (P. siberu) was formerly considered a subspecies of the Mentawai langur..[3][4]

References[]

  1. ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 172. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Setiawan, A., Quinten, M, Cheyne, S., Traeholt, C. & Whittaker, D. (2020). "Presbytis potenziani". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T39815A17954456. Retrieved 10 July 2020.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "Presbytis siberu". American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  4. ^ Meyer, Dirk; Rinaldi, Ir. Dones; Ramlee, Hatta; Perwitasari-Farajallah, Dyah; Hodges, Keith; Roos, Christian (2011). "Mitochondrial phylogeny of leaf monkeys (genus Presbytis, Eschscholtz, 1821) with implications for taxonomy and conservation". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 59 (2): 311–319. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.02.015. PMID 21333742. Retrieved 2020-04-08.


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