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The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates: 2006-2008. |
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SCIENCE DEL' ENVIRONNEMENT. |
Résumé |
The 2006-2008 list of the World's 25 Most Endangered Primates has four species from Madagascar, seven from Africa, 11 from Asia, and three from the Neotropics-four lemurs, a galago and the kipunji from Tanzania, three red colobus monkeys, the roloway monkey, a tarsier and the pig-tailed langur from Indonesia, a slow loris from Sri Lanka, three langurs (two from Vietnam and one from Sri Lanka), two snub-nosed langurs (both from Vietnam), two spider monkeys from Colombia and Ecuador, the Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkey, two gibbons (China and India) and two of the great apes (the Sumatran orangutan and the Cross River gorilla from Nigeria and Cameroon) .Four of the World's 25 Most Endangered Primates are species only recently described: The Sahamalaza Peninsula sportive lemur (Lepilemur sahamalazensis) was first described by Andriaholinirina and colleagues in 2006; the Rondo dwarf galago (Galagoides rondoensis) by Paul Honess in Kingdon (1997); the kipunji, a mangabey (Rungwecebus kipunji) by Ehardt and colleagues in 2005; and the grey-shanked douc (Pygathrix cinerea) by Nadler in 1997. A fifth, the tarsier of the Island of Siau, Indonesia, has yet to be described by Myron Shekelle and colleagues. Seventy-one primates have been described for the first time since 1990; 42 of them in Madagascar. |