Know Your Primate: Presbytis hosei canicrus

Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorrhini Family: Cercopithecidae Subfamily: Colobinae Genus: Presbytis Species: Presbytis hosei canicrus Common Name: Miller’s grizzled langur Presbytis hosei canicrus is a subspecies of grey leaf monkey. It was feared to be extinct but has recently been observed in Borneo. Picture Source

Know Your Primate: Rhinopithecus roxellana

Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorrhini Family: Cercopithecidae Subfamily: Colobinae Genus: Rhinopithecus Species: Rhinopithecus roxellana Common: Golden snub-nosed monkey The taxonomy of the snub-nosed langurs is somewhat muddled. For purposes of this post I am following the simplest arrangement. The genus Rhinopithecus contains four species, three of which live at high elevations (up to about 4,500 meters) [...]

Know Your Primate: Semnopithecus entellus

Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorrhini Family: Cercopithecidae Subfamily: Colobinae Genus: Semnopithecus (formerly Presbytis) Species: Semnopithecus entellus Common Name: Hanuman Langur The Hanuman langer is spread widely throughout southern Tibet and Nepal, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. They are medium sized to large monkeys getting up to about thirty inches long (not including their long tail) [...]

Know Your Primate: Presbytis melalophos

Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorrhini Family: Cercopithecidae Subfamily: Colobinae Genus: Presbytis Species: Presbytis melalophos Common: Mitred Leaf Monkey The mitred leaf monkey resides in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and western Borneo. They are smallish colobines, weighing about 13 pounds, on average. They are diurnal and live in a wide variety of primary and secondary forests.

Know your Primate: Colobus guereza

Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorrhini Family: Cercopithecidae Subfamily: Colobinae Genus: Colobus Species: Colobus guereza Common Name: Black and white colobus, guereza The black and white colobus resides in most parts of sub-Saharan Africa. It can be found in a wide variety of forest, woodland, and wooded grassland habitats.

Know Your Primate: Saturday Edition

Order: Primates Family: Cercopithecidae Subfamily: Colobinae Genus: Pygathrix Species: Pygathrix nemaeus Also known as the Red-shanked Douc Langur…

Friday Know Your Primates: Proboscis Monkey

Suborder Anthropoidea Infraorder Catarrhini Superfamily Cercopithecoidea Family Cercopithecidae Subfamily Colobinae Genus Nasalis Species Nasalis concolor (simakobu) Nasalis larvatus (proboscis monkey) Today’s primate is the proboscis monkey. The Simakobu, Nasalis concoor, was originally considered to be in a separate genus (Simias to be exact) will be discussed in a future post.

Friday Know Your Primate: Mesopithecus pentelici

Today we have our first fossil primate. Infraorder: Catarrhini Family: Cercopithecidae Subfamily: Colobinae Genus: Mesopithecus Species: Mesopithecus pentelici, M. monspessulanus