Semnopithecus entellus

(Dufresne, 1797)

Bengal Sacred Langur

Two individuals, one grooming the other. Also as Bengal Gray Langur, Bengal Hanuman Langur, Common Langur, Entellus Langur, Hanuman Langur, North Indian Langur, Northern Plains Gray Langur. Identified by KP Karanth and KS Chetan Nag.
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Location:India, Rajasthan, JaipurDate taken:UnknownDescription:Two individuals, one grooming the other. Also as Bengal Gray Langur, Bengal Hanuman Langur, Common Langur, Entellus Langur, Hanuman Langur, North Indian Langur, Northern Plains Gray Langur. Identified by KP Karanth and KS Chetan Nag.

Distribution :

Pakistan and India, lowlands north of Godavari and Krishna Rivers, south of Ganges.

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 817

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Euarchontoglires
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Parvorder: Catarrhini
Superfamily: Cercopithecoidea
Family: Cercopithecidae
Subfamily: Colobinae
Tribe: Presbytini
Genus: Semnopithecus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Dufresne, L. 1797-10. Sur une nouvelle espèce de singe. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société philomatique de Paris (1791-1805) 1(7):49.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5492440

Original name as described

Simia Entellus

Other common names

Bengal Gray Langur · Bengal Hanuman Langur · Common Langur · Entellus Langur · Hanuman Langur · North Indian Langur · Northern Plains Gray Langur

Type material

lost (number not known)

Type kind

nonexistent

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/2005-957

Type locality

India, Bengal.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

India

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000688

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 10 names and synonyms.

Simia Entellus

Dufresne, 1797

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

entellus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

lost (number not known)

Type kind

nonexistent

Original type locality

Bengale

Type locality

India: West Bengal: 22°32′N, 88°22′E.

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/2005-957

Authority page

49

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5492440

Authority publication

Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société philomatique de Paris (1791-1805)

Name usages

Dufresne (1797:49, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5492440) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69247)
Audebert (1799:@fam. 4 sec. 2 p. 3, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58948767) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68277)
Goldfuss (1809:58, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47497839) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34654)
Virey (1819:276, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35135194) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60385)
Griffith (1821:52) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68343)
Fischer (1829:14) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)

Cercopithecus entellus:

É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

entellus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

17

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1803:17) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19153)
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1812:95, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3499289) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/17666)
Fischer (1813:535, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29109646) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/49925)
Voigt (1819:407) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69477)
Muirhead (1819:401) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69481)
Desmarest (1821:59, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39523823) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34459)
Schinz (1821:102, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51528859) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37604)
Desmarest (1822:533, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39521977) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36189)
Gistel (1848:243, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25781120) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69572)

Semnopithecus Entellus:

Lesson, 1827

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

entellus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

40

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207471

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

Lesson (1827:40, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207471) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1831:38) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67807)
Sykes (1831:99, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1214060) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67691)
Martin (1838:323, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2297076) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68907)
Martin (1838:435, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2297127) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68906)
Ogilby (1839:lix, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2912362) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67483)
Blyth (1840:58, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49918218) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67419)
Blyth (1841:839, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39758347) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69200)
Cuvier (1842:1, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44518524) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60227)
Lesson (1842:3) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
Blyth (1842:890, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40005266) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68661)
Blyth (1844:469, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40057296) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68447)
Day (1863:436) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69416)
Murray (1866:320, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580316) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)
Gray (1871:14, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9994508) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/21655)
Sclater (1872:2, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17037796) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/61617)
Milne-Edwards (1876:77) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69177)
Schlegel (1876:60, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14895125) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67480)
Blanford (1888:27, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28222917) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37753)
Flower & Lydekker (1891:727, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46965942) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34115)
Trouessart (1904:8, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422869) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
Groves (1993:273) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69008)
Durden & Musser (1994:47) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/4542)
Brandon-Jones, Eudey, Geissmann, Groves, Melnick, Morales, Shekelle & Stewart (2004:132) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5237)
Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)
Egi, Nakatsukasa, Kalmykov, Maschenko & Takai (2007:109) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/14503)
Osterholz, Walter & Roos (2008:7) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/4913)
Mittermeier, Rylands & Wilson (2013:733) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59513)
Roos, Boonratana, Supriatna, Fellowes, Groves, Nash, Rylands & Mittermeier (2014:14) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/20030)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #39832) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #39832) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000688) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/39832/17942050) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Presbytis entellus:

E. Blyth, 1863

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

entellus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

11

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47534729

Authority publication

Calcutta

Name usages

Blyth (1863:11, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47534729) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37155)
Jerdon (1867:4, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37299609) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68353)
Ellerman & Morrison-Scott (1951:204, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8722505) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/31900)
Corbet & Hill (1980:90) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:238) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Corbet & Hill (1991:100) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)

Presbytes entellus:

Stoliczka, 1872

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

entellus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

220

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37137936

Authority publication

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Name usages

Stoliczka (1872:220, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37137936) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67309)

Semnopitecus entellus:

de Elera, 1895

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

entellus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

1

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38853911

Authority publication

Manila

Name usages

Elera (1895:1, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38853911) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68680)

Pygathrix entellus:

D. G. Elliot, 1913

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

entellus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

lxiv

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40602358

Authority publication

New York

Name usages

Elliot (1913:lxiv, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40602358) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35489)

Pithecus entellus:

W. W. A. Phillips, 1929

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

entellus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

121

Authority publication

Ceylon Journal of Science

Name usages

Phillips (1929:121) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68575)

Presbytis entellus entellus:

Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

entellus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

204

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8722505

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Ellerman & Morrison-Scott (1951:204, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8722505) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/31900)

Semnopithecus entellus entellus:

Brandon-Jones, Eudey, T. Geissmann, Groves, D. J. Melnick, J. C. Morales, Shekelle, & C.-B. Stewart, 2004

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

entellus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

132

Authority publication

International Journal of Primatology

Name usages

Brandon-Jones, Eudey, Geissmann, Groves, Melnick, Morales, Shekelle & Stewart (2004:132) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5237)

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