A new record of the capped langur (Trachypithecus pileatus) in China

Yi-Ming Hu; Zhi-Xin Zhou; Zhi-Wen Huang; Ming Li; Zhi-Gang Jiang; Jian-Pu Wu; Wu-Lin Liu; Kun Jin; Hui-Jian Hu

doi:10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2017.038

A new record of the capped langur (Trachypithecus pileatus) in China

Zool Res. 2017 Jul 18;38(4):203-205. doi: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2017.038.

Authors

Yi-Ming Hu¹, Zhi-Xin Zhou², Zhi-Wen Huang², Ming Li³, Zhi-Gang Jiang³, Jian-Pu Wu⁴, Wu-Lin Liu⁴, Kun Jin⁵, Hui-Jian Hu⁶

Affiliations

¹ Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Guangdong Institute of Applied Biological Resources, Guangzhou Guangdong 510260, China; Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
² Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Guangdong Institute of Applied Biological Resources, Guangzhou Guangdong 510260, China.
³ Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
⁴ Forestry Inventory and Planning Institute of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa Tibet 850000, China.
⁵ Research Institute of Forest Ecology Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China. jk2002@caf.ac.cn.
⁶ Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Guangdong Institute of Applied Biological Resources, Guangzhou Guangdong 510260, China. 13922339577@139.com.

Abstract

The distribution of the capped langur (Trachypithecus pileatus) in China has become controversial since Shortridge's langur (Trachypithecus shortridgei) was upgraded to a full species. The capped langur is considered to be distributed in northeast India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and northwest Myanmar only (Brandon-Jones et al., 2004; Choudhury, 2008, 2014; Das et al., 2008; Groves, 2001). In our field survey, however, we obtained photos of the capped langur, demonstrating its existence in China.

Keywords: Himalayas; Langurs; New record; Tibet; Trachypithecus.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Animal Distribution*
Animals
Cercopithecidae / anatomy & histology*
Cercopithecidae / physiology*
China

Grants and funding

This study was supported by the Second National Survey of Terrestrial Wildlife Resources of the State Forestry Administration of China (Semnopithecus schistaceus Project,No.176 Geographic Unit Project),the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31400361),the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province,China (2013B061800042),and the National Key Program (2016YFC0503200) from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China