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Hylobates
Taxonomy
Hylobates was named by Illiger (1811). It is extant.
It was assigned to Quadrumana by Illiger (1811); to Simiina by Gray (1825); to Pongidae by Hooijer (1962); to Hylobatidae by Andrews and Cronin (1982), McKenna and Bell (1997), Mootnick and Groves (2005) and Thinh et al. (2010); and to Hominoidea by Zalmout et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Quadrumana by Illiger (1811); to Simiina by Gray (1825); to Pongidae by Hooijer (1962); to Hylobatidae by Andrews and Cronin (1982), McKenna and Bell (1997), Mootnick and Groves (2005) and Thinh et al. (2010); and to Hominoidea by Zalmout et al. (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1811 | Hylobates Illiger p. 67 |
| 1825 | Hylobates Gray p. 338 |
| 1962 | Hylobates Hooijer p. 428 |
| 1982 | Hylobates Andrews and Cronin p. 545 |
| 1997 | Hylobates McKenna and Bell |
| 2005 | Hylobates Mootnick and Groves p. 973 |
| 2010 | Hylobates Thinh et al. p. 1 |
| 2010 | Hylobates Zalmout et al. pp. Supp. 4 figs. Table 2 |
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G. Hylobates Illiger 1811
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Hylobates abbotti Kloss 1929 [Abbott's Müller's Bornean gibbon]
Hylobates agilis Cuvier 1821 [agile gibbon]
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Invalid names: Hylobates rafflesi Geoffroy 1828 [synonym], Hylobates unko Lesson 1840 [synonym]
Hylobates albibarbis Lyon 1911 [Bornean white-bearded gibbon]
Hylobates funereus Geoffroy 1850 [northern Müller's Bornean gibbon]
Hylobates klossii Miller 1903 [Kloss's gibbon]
Hylobates lar Linnaeus 1771 [lar gibbon]
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Hylobates lar carpenteri Groves 1968 [Carpenter's lar gibbon]
Hylobates lar lar Linnaeus 1771 [Malayan lar gibbon]
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Invalid names: Pithecus variegatus Geoffroy 1812 [synonym], Simia albimana Vigors and Horsfield 1828 [synonym]
Hylobates lar vestitus Miller, Jr. 1942 [Sumatran lar gibbon]
Hylobates lar yunnanensis Ma and Wang 1986 [Yunnan lar gibbon]
Hylobates lar entelloides Geoffroy 1842 [mainland lar gibbon]
Hylobates moloch Audebert 1797 [silvery Javan gibbon]
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Hylobates cinereus cinereus Latreille 1804
Invalid names: Hylobates leuciscus Schreber 1799 [synonym], Simia cinerea Latreille 1804 [synonym]
Hylobates muelleri Martin 1841 [eastern Müller's Bornean gibbon]
Hylobates pileatus Gray 1861 [pileated gibbon]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 2.58800 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.781 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.781 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | H. sp. (230325) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China ( Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) | H. sp. (214689) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Vietnam | H. sp. (107997) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Malaysia | H. moloch (192522) |