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GENUS Pygathrix

Author:É. Geoffroy, 1812.
Citation:Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 19: 90.
Type Species:Simia nemaeus Linnaeus, 1771.
Comments:Rhinopithecus included in Pygathrix by Groves (1970) and Szalay and Delson (1979:404) and McKenna and Bell (1997); but see Jablonski and Peng (1993) and Groves (2001c), who recognized that the two are sister-groups but retained them as separate genera.
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Offspring:

SPECIES cinerea

SPECIES nemaeus

SPECIES nigripes

Synonyms:

    Daunus Gray, 1821

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