The Tonkin snub nosed monkey is a slender bodied, arboreal Old World monkey endemic to northern Vietnam, and the rarest of the five snub nosed monkey species. It has black upperparts and creamy white underparts, a flattened face with a pink upturned nose, thickened pink lips, patches of blue skin around the eyes, and an orange throat patch in breeding males. Adults measure 51 to 65 centimeters in head and body length, with females weighing about 8 kilograms and males about 14 kilograms. It survives only in forest patches on limestone karst at elevations of 200 to 1,200 meters in the Vietnamese provinces of Tuyen Quang, Bac Kan, Ha Giang and Thai Nguyen, a dramatic contraction from its historical range, and fewer than 250 individuals were known to exist in 2008 though recent surveys suggest modest recovery in protected areas. The IUCN classifies it as Critically Endangered. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Classification
System (Realm) Relationship to People Living or Extinct Scientific NameRhinopithecus avunculus 3 Conservation Status Comparison
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Source Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Wikidata)
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Source Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Rhinopithecus avunculus
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1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)
2. Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Wikipedia)
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CR
System/realm (stated plainly in the entity own recorded description)
It survives only in forest patches on limestone karst at elevations of 200 to 1,200 meters in the Vietnamese provinces of Tuyen Quang, Bac Kan, Ha Giang and Thai Nguyen, a dramatic contraction from its historical range, and fewer than 250 individuals were known to exist in 2008 though recent surveys suggest modest recovery in protected areas.
Status
The monkey was hunted for its meat that was eaten by some groups, although it was not considered very appealing, or for prized body parts.
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View the Source3. Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q18818 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): critically endangered.
- Child Taxon Of: Cercopithecidae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
View the Source 4. Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Rhinopithecus avunculus
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of ZoologyConservation Status: CITES
CITES Appendix I
In Biome: Tropical Rainforest, Habitat Regions, biome: rainforest
rainforest rainforest
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