The Indochinese silver langur (Trachypithecus germaini), also called Germain’s langur, the Indochinese lutung, or the Indochinese leaf monkey, is an Old World monkey of the leaf-eating subfamily Colobinae (family Cercopithecidae) [4][5]. It is one of the silvered langurs of mainland Southeast Asia, ranging across Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam [4][7][9]. Other names: Germain’s …
The Delacour’s langur (Trachypithecus delacouri) is a large, critically endangered monkey of the Old World monkey family (Cercopithecidae), found nowhere else on Earth but the limestone karst forests of northern Vietnam [1,2]. It was named after the French-American ornithologist , who is honoured in its scientific name [5]. In Vietnamese it is best known as …
The southern yellow-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus gabriellae) is a small ape of the family Hylobatidae (the gibbons, or “small apes”), endemic to Indochina. It is found today in southern Vietnam and southeastern Cambodia, and historically in parts of southern Laos [1,2,5]. The species was first described in 1909 and named after the British naturalist Gabrielle Maud …
Cat Ba langur (Trachypithecus poliocephalus) is a rare primate species endemic to Vietnam belonging to the genus Trachypithecus (Crested Langurs or Limestone Langurs). Other names: English: Cat Ba hooded black leaf monkey, golden-headed langur, and Tonkin hooded black langur. Vietnamese: Voọc Cát Bà, Voọc đầu trắng, Voọc đen đầu vàng, Voọc đầu vàng. …
The Hatinh langur (Trachypithecus hatinhensis) is a primate native to the forests of Vietnam, particularly in Quang Binh and Quang Tri provinces[1,2]. Despite its name, it is not found in Ha Tinh province. It is also called stripe-headed black langurs. The local Van Kieu minority refer to this langur as the ‘Con Cung’, which translates …
Red-shanked douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus) is a primate species of the family Cercopithecidae (i.e. Old World monkeys) that is endemic to Indochina (Vietnam, Lao DPR, and Cambodia). The name “Douc” /dook/ arises by how this langur sounds, which is also known as onomatopoeia – a creation of a word from a sound related to what …
