Southern white-cheeked gibbon

Southern white-cheeked gibbon[1]
Female (left) and male
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[3]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Hylobatidae
Genus: Nomascus
Species:
N. siki
Binomial name
Nomascus siki
(Delacour, 1951)
Southern white-cheeked gibbon range

The southern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus siki) is a species of gibbon native to Vietnam and Laos. It is closely related to the northern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) and the yellow-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus gabriellae); it has previously been identified as a subspecies of each of these.

  1. ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). "Order Primates". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ Nguyen, M.H.; Coudrat, C.N.Z.; Roos, C.; Rawson, B.M.; Duckworth, J.W. (2020). "Nomascus siki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T39896A17968765. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T39896A17968765.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.