Carpenter's lar gibbon

Carpenter's lar gibbon
Scientific classification
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
Graves, 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. 1 2 Brockelman, W. & Geissmann, T. 2008. Hylobates lar ssp. carpenteri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T39882A10269507. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T39882A10269507.en. Downloaded on 09 January 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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. ↑ Wilson & Reeder's Mammal Species of the World, Third Edition, http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100763, accessed 8 Jan 2018.
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