Eastern hoolock gibbon
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H. leuconedys
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| Hoolock leuconedys (Groves, 1967)
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The eastern hoolock gibbon (Hoolock leuconedys) is a primate from the gibbon family, Hylobatidae. The species is found in extreme eastern corner of Assam and parts of Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar east of the Chindwin River, and in south west Yunnan of China;[2] the Indian records may represents Hoolock hoolock.[1]
Classification
Mootnick and Groves[3] stated that hoolock gibbons do not belong in the genus Bunopithecus, and placed them 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.[4] Another difference between the two species (eastern and western hoolock gibbons) is that recent studies have shown that the eastern hoolock gibbons range is restricted in India to the northern side of the Lohit river but doesn't go past the Himalayan range
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brockelman, W. & Geissmann, T. (2008). Hoolock leuconedys. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
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