Lutung
Overview
Old World monkey
The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini. The Old World monkeys are native to Africa and Asia today, inhabiting a range of environments from tropical rain forest to savanna, shrubland and mountainous...
s and make up the entirety of the genus
Genus
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Trachypithecus. Their range is split into two parts; one part is much of southeast Asia
Asia
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(northeast India
India
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, southern China
China
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, Borneo
Borneo
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, Thailand
Thailand
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, Java
Java
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and Bali
Bali
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), the other part is extreme southern India and Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
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. The greater part of India has lutungs. Most of the species in this genus can be referred to as lutungs, as langurs, or as leaf monkeys.
The name "lutung" comes from the Malay language
Malay language
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, and is preferred by some authors because it distinguishes the genus from the "true" langurs of the Indian subcontinent.
Lutungs have a rather slim build with a long tail.
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