Order Primates
Author
Colin P. Groves
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
243
277
book chapter
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Trachypithecus vetulus
(Erxleben, 1777)
.
Syst. Regni Anim., p. 24
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Sri Lanka
, Hill country of South
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Sri Lanka
.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II;
U.S.
ESA - Threatened as
Presbytis senex
.
SYNONYMS:
albinus, harti, kelaartii,
kephalopterus
, latibarba,
latibarbatus
,
leucoprymnus
, monticola, nestor, philbricki, phillipsi, porphyrops, purpuratus,
senex
,
ursinus
.
COMMENTS: Type of subgenus
Kasi
;
see
Szalay and Delson (1979:402)
. Referred to as
vetulus
by
Corbet and Hill (1980:90)
without comment.
Presbytis vetulus
was named in the same paper as
senex
on page 25 (following
senex
).
On the correct usage of
vetulus
for the species, see
Napier (1985:72)
.