Hoolock Mootnick and Groves 2005 (hoolock gibbon)

Mammalia - Primates - Hylobatidae

Full reference: A. Mootnick and C. Groves. 2005. A new generic name for the hoolock gibbon (Hylobatidae). International Journal of Primatology 26(4):971-976

Parent taxon: Hylobatidae according to V. N. Thinh et al. 2010

See also Mootnick and Groves 2005

Sister taxa: Bunopithecus, Hylobates, Kapi, Nomascus, Symphalangus, Yuanmoupithecus

Subtaxa: Hoolock hoolock Hoolock leuconedys Hoolock tianxing

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Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Hoolock in the database

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