Taxonomic note: Bunopithecus: A genus‐level taxon for the hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock)
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in American Journal of Primatology
- Vol. 5 (1) , 83-87
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.1350050110
Abstract
The recent discovery that the hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock [Harlan, 1834]) has a karyotype distinct from all other hylobatids provides a new and strong motive for revising gibbon taxonomy and establishing hoolocks in a separate, higher taxon. Revising Groves's taxonomy of 1972, we propose that hoolock, along with the fossil species sericus, occupy a subgenus, Bunopithecus. With the newly added taxon, the genus Hylobates would thus contain four subgenera: Bunopithecus, Hylobates, Nomascus, and Symphalangus.Keywords
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