Trachypithecus
Genus of Old World monkeys / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Trachypithecus (derived from Greek τραχύς, trachýs meaning "rough" and πίθηκος, píthekos meaning "monkey") is a genus of Old World monkeys containing species known as lutungs, langurs, or leaf monkeys. Their range is much of Southeast Asia (northeast India, Vietnam, southern China, Borneo, Thailand, Java, and Bali).
Trachypithecus | |
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Dusky leaf monkey (Trachypithecus obscurus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Cercopithecidae |
Subfamily: | Colobinae |
Tribe: | Presbytini |
Genus: | Trachypithecus Reichenbach, 1862 |
Type species | |
Semnopithecus pyrrhus[1] | |
Species | |
16, see text |
The name "lutung" comes from the Sundanese language meaning "blackness", ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *luCuŋ (which originally referred to the Formosan rock macaque);[2] it is preferred in one paper because the authors wanted the name langurs to only refer to monkeys in the genus Semnopithecus,[3] although some "lutungs" are now "langurs" again.[4][5][6]