24. Hylobates lar (Linnaeus, 1771)

Common name: Lar Gibbon, White-handed Gibbon Myanmar name:

Distribution: China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia and Thailand. In Myanmar, recorded in Dawna-Tenasserim landscape (Tanintharyi Nature Reserve), Shan State and possibly in Mandalay Region (Shweudaung WS).

Remarks: There are five recognized subspecies and Myanmar has two subspecies: H. l. carpenter which distributed in Eastern and H. l. entelloides in Southern Myanmar (Roos et al. 2014).