Trachypithecus melamerus (Elliot, 1909)

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 153-154

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13931007
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scientific name	Trachypithecus melamerus (Elliot, 1909)
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Common name: Shan State Langur

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Distribution: Southwest China and East Myanmar (Shan State between the Ayeyarwaddy and Thanlwin rivers, with the Southwestern limit probably extending into the Kayah-Karen (Kayin) Mountains; Roos et al. 2020).

Remarks: Formerly listed as T. phayrei shanicus but now elevated to a full species ( Roos et al. 2020) and currently listed as endangered by the IUCN.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Primates
SubOrder	Haplorrhini
SuperFamily	Cercopithecoidea
Family	Cercopithecidae
Genus	Trachypithecus

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