Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

Alternative combinations: Presbytis melalophus, Semnopithecus melalophos, Simia melalophos

Full reference: T.S. Raffles. 1822. Descriptive Catalogue of a Zoological Collection, made on account of the Honorable East India Company, in the Island of Sumatra and its Vincinity, under the Direction of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Fort Marlborough; with additional Notices illustrative of the Natural History of those Countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13:239-274

Belongs to Presbytis according to C. J. Burgin et al. 2018

See also Hooijer 1962, Hooijer 1962, Stone and Rehn 1902 and Washburn 1944

Sister taxa: Presbytis aygula, Presbytis bicolor, Presbytis canicrus, Presbytis chrysomelas, Presbytis comata, Presbytis eohanuman, Presbytis femoralis, Presbytis frontata, Presbytis hosei, Presbytis mitrata, Presbytis natunae, Presbytis potenziani, Presbytis rubicunda, Presbytis sabana, Presbytis schistaceus, Presbytis siamensis, Presbytis siberu, Presbytis sumatrana, Presbytis thomasi

Subtaxa: Presbytis melalophos chrysomelas Presbytis melalophos femoralis Presbytis melalophos ferruginea Presbytis melalophos fuscomurina Presbytis melalophos melalophos Presbytis melalophos siamensis Presbytis melalophos sumatrana Presbytis melalophos sumatranus

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Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Presbytis melalophos in the database

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