A female in the foreground, and a male in the background
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Primates
Suborder:
Haplorhini
Infraorder:
Simiiformes
Family:
Hylobatidae
Genus:
Hoolock
Species:
H. hoolock
Binomial name
Hoolock hoolock
(Harlan, 1834)[3]
Western hoolock gibbon range
Synonyms
Simia hoolockprotonym
The western hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) is a primate from the gibbon family, Hylobatidae. The species is found in Assam, Mizoram, and Meghalaya in India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar west of the Chindwin River.[4]
^Brockelman, W.; Molur, S.; Geissmann, T. (2019). "Hoolock hoolock". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T39876A17968083. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T39876A17968083.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^"Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
^Harlan, Richard (1834). "Description of a Species of Orang, from the North-Eastern Province of British East India, Lately the Kingdom of Assam". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 4: 52–59. doi:10.2307/1004829. JSTOR 1004829.
^Groves, C. P. (1967). "Geographic variation in the hoolock or white-browed gibbon (Hylobates hoolock harlan 1834)". Folia Primatologica. 7 (3–4): 276–283. doi:10.1159/000155125. PMID 5626313.
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