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International Perspectives: The Future of Nonhuman Primate Resources
TABLE 1 Wild Primates in China
Common Name
Scientific Name
Distribution
Slow loris
Nycticebus coucang
West, Southwest, and South Yunnan, Southwest Guangxi
Intermediate slow loris
Nycticebus intermedium
South Yunnan
Lesser slow loris
Nycticebus pygmaeus
South Yunnan
Stumptail macaque
Macaca arctoides
Yunnan, South Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Guangdong
Assamese macaque
Macaca assamensis
Southeast and South Tibet, South and Northwest Yunnan, South Guangxi
Rhesus macaque
Macaca mulatta
Most areas south of Yellow River
Pigtail macaque
Macaca nemestrina
Southwest and South Yunnan
Tibetan macaque
Macaca thibetana
Sichuan, Chongqing, and surrounding areas of Middle and South China
Hanuman langur
Presbytis entellus
South Tibet
Francois’s leaf monkey
Presbytis francoisi
Southwest and West Guangxi, Northeast and Southwest Guizhou, Southeast Yunnan
Phayre’s leaf monkey
Trachypithecus phayrei
South Yunnan
Capped leaf monkey
Trachypithecus pileatus
Northwest Yunnan
Black snub-nosed monkey
Pygathrix bieti
Northwest Yunnan, Southwest Tibet
Gray snub-nosed monkey
Pygathrix brelichi
Fanjing Mount. of Guizhou
Chinese snub-nosed
Pygathrix roxellana
South Sichuan, Gansu and monkey Shaanxi; West Hubei
Black gibbon
Hylobates concolor
South Yunnan, Southwest Guangxi, Hainan Island
Hoolock gibbon
Hylobates hoolock
West Yunnan
White-handed gibbon
Hylobates lar
South Yunnan
White-cheeked gibbon
Hylobates leucogenys
South Yunnan
aMa, S. and Y. Wang. 1988.
bWang, S., ed. 1998.
cE, endangered; V, vulnerable.
dEN, endangered; VU, vulnerable; LR/cd, lower risk/conservation dependent; LR/nt, lower risk/near threatened; DD, data deficient.
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