Mentawai langur
The Mentawai langur (Presbytis potenziani) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is endemic to the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia.
| Mentawai langur[1] | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
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
- 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.
- Whittaker, D. & Mittermeier, R. A. (2008). "Presbytis potenziani". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2008: e.T18130A7667072. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T18130A7667072.en. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- "Presbytis siberu". American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- 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. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
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