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Presbytis melalophos (Sumatran surili)

Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

Taxonomy

Simia melalophos was named by Raffles (1822). It is extant.

It was recombined as Semnopithecus melalophos by Stone and Rehn (1902); it was misspelled as Presbytis melalophus by Washburn (1944); it was recombined as Presbytis melalophos by Hooijer (1962), Hooijer (1962) and Burgin et al. (2018).

Subspecies

P. chrysomelas, P. femoralis, P. ferruginea, P. fuscomurina, P. melalophos, P. siamensis, P. sumatrana, P. sumatranus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1822	Simia melalophos Raffles p. 245
1902	Semnopithecus melalophos Stone and Rehn p. 141
1944	Presbytis melalophus Washburn p. 290
1962	Presbytis melalophos Hooijer p. 6
2018	Presbytis melalophos Burgin et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes

Rank	Name	Author
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Euarchonta
order	Primates
infraorder	Haplorhini	(Pocock 1918)
—	Anthropoidea	(Mivart 1864)
infraorder	Catarrhini	Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
superfamily	Cercopithecoidea
family	Cercopithecidae
subfamily	Colobinae	Jerdon 1867
genus	Presbytis	Eschscholtz 1821
species	melalophos	()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Presbytis melalophos Raffles 1822 [Sumatran surili]

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Presbytis melalophos chrysomelas Müller 1841

Presbytis melalophos femoralis Müller and Schlegel 1861

Presbytis melalophos fuscomurina Elliot 1906

Presbytis melalophos melalophos Raffles 1821

Presbytis melalophos siamensis Müller and Schlegel 1841

Presbytis melalophos sumatrana Müller and Schlegel 1841

Presbytis melalophos sumatranus Müller and Schlegel 1841

Presbytis melalophos ferruginea Schlegel 1841

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Diagnosis