Trachypithecus vetulus (Erxleben, 1777)

Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Primates, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 243-277 : 274

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scientific name	Trachypithecus vetulus (Erxleben, 1777)
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Trachypithecus vetulus (Erxleben, 1777) View in CoL . Syst. Regni Anim., p. 24.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sri Lanka, Hill country of South .

DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; U.S. ESA - Threatened as Presbytis senex .

SYNONYMS: albinus, harti, kelaartii, kephalopterus , latibarba, latibarbatus , leucoprymnus , monticola, nestor, philbricki, phillipsi, porphyrops, purpuratus, senex , ursinus .

COMMENTS: Type of subgenus Kasi ; see Szalay and Delson (1979:402). Referred to as vetulus by Corbet and Hill (1980:90) without comment. Presbytis vetulus was named in the same paper as senex on page 25 (following senex ). On the correct usage of vetulus for the species, see Napier (1985:72).