Bornean white-bearded gibbon[1] | |
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Bornean white-bearded gibbon, (Hylobates albibarbis) in Tanjung Puting National Park | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Hylobatidae |
Genus: | Hylobates |
Species: | H. albibarbis
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Binomial name | |
Hylobates albibarbis Lyon, 1911
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Range of Bornean white-bearded gibbon (green) |
The Bornean white-bearded gibbon (Hylobates albibarbis), also known as the Bornean agile gibbon or southern gibbon, is a species of gibbon endemic to southern Borneo. It is an endangered species, due to the ongoing logging of tropical forests between the Kapuas and Barito rivers.[2] Additional issues of concern to the endangerment of white-bearded gibbons also threaten other arboreal primates.[3][4]
The white-bearded gibbon is very similar to other gibbons in their behaviour and their frugivorous diet. The Bornean white-bearded gibbon was formerly considered a subspecies of the agile gibbon but based on recent DNA research, some now classify it as a separate species.[1][4][5]