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Tonkin snub-nosed monkey

Mammals

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/

Facts
Classification
Diet
Herbivore 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Relationship to People
Hunted or Fished 2
Living or Extinct
Yes 3
Scientific Name
Rhinopithecus avunculus 3
Conservation Status
Critically Endangered 2
Comparison
CITES Appendix
Appendix I 4
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Cercopithecidae, Taxa
Source Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Wikidata)

In Biome

Source Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Rhinopithecus avunculus
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Found In

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)
2. Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox: status
    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.
  • Infobox: status2
    CITES_A1
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3. 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
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4. Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Rhinopithecus avunculus
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
  • Conservation Status: CITES
    CITES Appendix I
  • In Biome: Tropical Rainforest, Habitat Regions, biome: rainforest
    rainforest rainforest
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