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SPECIES Hylobates agilis

Author:F. Cuvier, 1821.
Citation:In É. Geoffroy and F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammifères, pt. 2(3(32)): 1-3, "Wouwou".
Common Name:Agile Gibbon
Type Locality:Indonesia, W Sumatra.
Distribution:Malay Peninsula from the Mudah and Thepha Rivers on the north to the Perak and Kelanton Rivers on the south; Sumatra (Indonesia), SE of Lake Toba and the Singkil River.
Status:CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as H. a. agilis and H. a. unko.
Comments:Not a subspecies of lar. Includes albibarbis according to Marshall and Marshall (1976), but this was considered a separate species by Groves (2001c).
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Synonyms:

    albo griseus Ludeking, 1862
    albo nigrescens Ludeking, 1862
    rafflei É. Geoffroy, 1828
    unko Lesson, 1829

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