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Tufted gray langur
Species of Old World monkey / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The tufted gray langur (Semnopithecus priam), also known as Madras gray langur, and Coromandel sacred langur, is an Old World monkey, one of the species of langurs. This, like other gray langurs, is mainly a leaf-eating monkey. It is found in southeast India and Sri Lanka.[1] It is one of three Semnopithecus species named after characters from The Iliad, S. hector and S. ajax being the others. In Sinhala it is known as හැලි වදුරා (Heli wandura).
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Tufted gray langur[1] | |
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in Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala, India | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Cercopithecidae |
Genus: | Semnopithecus |
Species: | S. priam |
Binomial name | |
Semnopithecus priam Blyth, 1844 | |
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Tufted gray langur range |
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