Zhiyong Fan, MS,* and Yanling Song^†

Nineteen species of primates are distributed in China, including three families and six genera (Table 1). There are perhaps 21 species of Taiwan macaque (Macaca cyclopis, only distributed in Taiwan with 7000 individuals) and douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus, only recorded in Hainan in 1892) are counted. Loris (Nycticebus spp.) and gibbons (Hylobates spp.) mainly range in Yunnan, with some in Guangxi and Hainan. Langurs (Presbytis spp. and Trachypithecus spp.) are mainly in Southwest China and Guangxi. Snub-nosed monkeys (Pygathrix spp.) are in Southwest China, with some in Gansu, Shaanxi, and Hubei. The species of macaques have wide distribution in China and range mostly south of Yellow River. The stumptail macaque (Macaca arctoides) is in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, and Fujian; the Assamese macaque (Macaca assamensis) in Yunnan, Guangxi, and Tibet; the pigtail macaque (Macaca nemestrina) in Yunnan; the Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana) is endemic to China and in Southwest and Middle China, southern parts of Gansu, and Shaanxi, Guangxi, Fujian, and Zhejiang; and the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) has the widest distribution in China and is mostly in the areas to the south of Yellow River but mainly in the southern part of China.