Nomascus leucogenys

(W. Ogilby, 1840)

Northern White-cheeked Crested Gibbon

Side view of sitting adult. Also as Northern White-cheeked Gibbon, White-cheeked Gibbon.
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Location:USA, CA, San Diego Co., San Diego ZooDate taken:1 January 1974Description:Side view of sitting adult. Also as Northern White-cheeked Gibbon, White-cheeked Gibbon.

Distribution :

SW Yunnan (China) to 19°N in Vietnam and Laos.

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 537

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Euarchontoglires
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Parvorder: Catarrhini
Superfamily: Hominoidea
Family: Hylobatidae
Genus: Nomascus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Ogilby, W. 1840-07. Mr. Ogilby next drew attention to a prepared specimen and skull of a Gibbon, which had recently died at the Society's menagerie. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1840:20-21.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30571455

Original name as described

Hylobates leucogenys

Other common names

Northern White-cheeked Gibbon · White-cheeked Gibbon

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1855.12.24.5

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/8627aa63-3292-406f-8927-7238fea2ae60 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/8bb5ca47-e3a0-40e3-b933-d9aab039e58d

Type locality

Siam. Restricted by J. Fooden in 1987 to Laos, Muang Khi.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

China · Laos · Vietnam

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000740

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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: 4 names and synonyms.

Hylobates leucogenys

W. Ogilby, 1840

Family

Hylobatidae

Root name

leucogenys

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1855.12.24.5

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

The precise locality from which this animal was procured had not been ascertained

Type locality

Laos.

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/8627aa63-3292-406f-8927-7238fea2ae60 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/8bb5ca47-e3a0-40e3-b933-d9aab039e58d

Authority page

20

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30571455

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

Lesson (1842:2) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1844:8) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68923)
Gray (1871:11, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9994505) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/21655)
Trouessart (1904:5, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422872) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
Elliot (1913:lxvi, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40602398) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35489)
Groves (1993:275) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69008)

Hylobates concolor leucogenys:

Chasen, 1935

Family

Hylobatidae

Root name

leucogenys

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

33

Authority publication

Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam

Name usages

Chasen (1935:33) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34045)
Ellerman & Morrison-Scott (1951:213, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8722514) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/31900)

Nomascus leucogenys:

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

Family

Hylobatidae

Root name

leucogenys

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

152

Authority publication

International Journal of Primatology

Name usages

Brandon-Jones, Eudey, Geissmann, Groves, Melnick, Morales, Shekelle & Stewart (2004:152) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5237)
Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)
Smith & Xie (2008:171) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)
Mittermeier, Rylands & Wilson (2013:789) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59513)
Roos, Boonratana, Supriatna, Fellowes, Groves, Nash, Rylands & Mittermeier (2014:17) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/20030)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #39895) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #39895) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000740) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/39895/180816530) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Nomascus leucogenys leucogenys:

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

Family

Hylobatidae

Root name

leucogenys

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

152

Authority publication

International Journal of Primatology

Name usages

Brandon-Jones, Eudey, Geissmann, Groves, Melnick, Morales, Shekelle & Stewart (2004:152) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5237)

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