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 |
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