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Trachypithecus pileatus (capped leaf monkey; Capped Langur)

Synonyms: Macacus pileatus; Semnopithecus pileatus (homotypic); Trachypithecus argentatus; Trachypithecus saturatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The capped langur (Trachypithecus pileatus) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, China, India, and Myanmar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. There are four recognized subspecies of this lutung: \n* Trachypithecus pileatus pileatus \n* Trachypithecus pileatus durga \n* Trachypithecus pileatus brahma \n* Trachypithecus pileatus tenebricus
View Wikipedia Record: Trachypithecus pileatus

Infraspecies

Trachypithecus pileatus brahma (Buff-bellied Capped Langur)
Trachypithecus pileatus pileatus (Blond-bellied Capped Langur)
Trachypithecus pileatus tenebricus (Tenebrous Capped Langur)

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Trachypithecus pileatus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
26
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 1.98
EDGE Score: 2.48
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  25.009 lbs (11.344 kg)
Female Weight [1]  21.91 lbs (9.938 kg)
Male Weight [1]  28.109 lbs (12.75 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  28.3 %
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Plants [2]  70 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Maximum Longevity [3]  25 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  26 inches (67 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park II 421336 Myanmar  
Namdapha National Park II   Arunachal Pradesh, India
Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve VI 688326 Cambodia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4The Diet of the Capped Langur (Presbytis pileata) in a Moist Deciduous Forest in Bangladesh, Craig B. Stanford, International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1991
♦ 5Feeding Ecology of Trachypithecus pileatus in India, G. S. Solanki & Awadhesh Kumar & B. K. Sharma, Int J Primatol (2008) 29:173–182
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0