Endangered
Müller's Bornean gibbon
Hylobates muelleri
Müller's gibbon, also known as the southern grey gibbon, is a primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae.
Appearance
Unlike most gibbon species, Müller's gibbon does not show sexual dimorphism in its fur coloration. Its fur is grey- or brown-colored with a ring of bright fur around its face. On the head, it often has a darkly colored cap.
Weighing between 4–8 kg, it ranks among the smaller of the gibbons.
Range and habitat
Müller's gibbon is endemic to Kalimantan in the island of Borneo, inhabiting the southeastern part of the island. It is found approximately south of the Mahakam River and east of the Barito River.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Southern grey gibbons are diurnal rain forest dwellers, characterized by the long arms that all gibbons have, with that they brachiate through the trees. Their diet consists primarily of fruits.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Müller's Bornean gibbon is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Müller's Bornean gibbon, Wikidata item Q845938. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
