Vietnam has Twenty-four species of primate

VietnamBirdShooting 2018-08-16

Vietnam is a global hotspot of primate diversity. Twenty-four species of primate inhabit the forests of Vietnam including some of the most beautiful and spectacular. Almost half these species are endemic to our region and four species are only found within Vietnam – They are endemic species. Sadly most of these species are now threatened with extinction.

Vietnam primates include the nocturnal and insectivorous Loris’s, the monkey’s, which includes the macaques, which are predominately ground-dwelling omnivorous species, and the leaf-eating and arboreal langurs. At the top of the trees both literally and taxonomically are the gibbons, which like us live in nuclear families and re our closest surviving relatives in the forests Vietnam.

Habitat loss, as a result of deforestation by humans, has had an important impact on the geographic distributions of primates in Vietnam. The rangers of many species have been changed dramatically as a result. Many primate species today occur in small isolated populations that represent only a fragment of their former range.

List of Vietnam Primate Species:

No.	English name	*Latin name*	Status
1	Grey-shanked Douc	Pygathrix cinerea
2	Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey	Rhinopithecus avaunculus
3	Cat Ba Langur	Trachypithecus poliocephalus
4	Delacour’s Langur	Trachypithecus delacouri
5	Western Black Crested	Gibbon Nomascus concolor
6	Eastern Black Crested Gibbon	Nomascus nasutus
7	Northern White-Cheeked Crested Gibbon	Nomascus leucogenys
8	Red-shanked Douc	Pygathrix nemaeus
9	Black-shanked Douc	Pygathrix nigripes
10	Germain’s Langur	Trachypithecus germaini
11	Annamese Langur	Trachypithecus margarita
12	Indochinese grey Langur	Trachypithecus ebenus
13	Francois’s Langur	Trachypithecus francoisi
14	Hatinh langur	Trachypithecus hatinhensis
15	Northern yellow-cheeked creasted gibbon	Nomascus annamensis
16	Southern white-cheeked crested Gibbon	Nomascus siki
17	Southern yellow-cheeked crested Gibbon	Hylobates gabriellae
18	Bengal slow loris	Nycticebus bengalensis
19	Pygmy slow loris	Nycticebus pygmaeus
20	Northern Pig-tailed Macaque	Macaca leonina
21	Stump-tailed Macaque	Macaca arctoides
22	Assamese Macaque	Macaca assamensis
23	Rhesus Macaque	Macaca mulatta
24	Long-tailed Macaque	Macaca fascicularis