Trachypithecus popa Roos, Helgen, Miguez, Thant, Lwin, A. K. Lin, A. Lin, Yi, Soe, Hein, Myint, Ahmed, Chetry, Urh, Veatch, Duncan, Kamminga, Chua, Yao, Matauschek, Meyer, Liu, Li, Nadler, Fan, Quyet, Hofreiter, Zinner and Momberg, 2020

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 154

19. Trachypithecus popa Roos, Helgen, Miguez, Thant, Lwin, A. K. Lin, A. Lin, Yi, Soe, Hein, Myint, Ahmed, Chetry, Urh, Veatch, Duncan, Kamminga, Chua, Yao, Matauschek, Meyer, Liu, Li, Nadler, Fan, Quyet, Hofreiter, Zinner and Momberg, 2020

Common name: Popa Langur

Myanmar name:

Distribution: Only occur in Myanmar; between the Ayeyarwaddy and Thanlwin Rivers in the Central Dry Zone (Mount Popa, Bago Yoma, Myogyi Monastery, PanlaungPyadalin Cave Wildlife Sanctuary, and Mount Yathae Pya) and into the western foothills of the Kayah-Karen (Kayin) Mountains ( Roos et al. 2020).

Remarks: This is a recently discovered new primate species which is endemic to Myanmar ( Roos et al. 2020). It is categorized as critically endangered by the IUCN.