Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Pygathrix É. Geoffroy, 1812

Colobine genus to which the douc langur and snub-nosed monkeys belong; four species, but some authorities place the snub-nosed monkeys in the genus Rhinopithecus, leaving only the douc langur in Pygathrix.

See Rhinopithecus.

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