Critically Endangered
Myanmar snub-nosed monkey
Rhinopithecus strykeri
Myanmar snub-nosed monkey is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae (order Primates) — Rhinopithecus strykeri, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The monkey's fur is mostly black. It has protruding white ear tufts, a mostly naked face with pale pink skin, a "moustache" of whitish hairs above the upper lip, and a distinct white chin beard. The perineal area is white and clearly defined, and the limbs are mostly black. The inner sides of the upper arms and upper legs are blackish brown.
Their tails are relatively long and normally approximately 1.4 times their body length. The first found specimen, an adult male, has a height of 55.5 centimetres (21.9 in), and a tail 78 cm (31 in) long.
Introduction The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey or Burmese snub-nosed monkey or black snub-nosed monkey is a critically endangered species of colobine monkey described in 2010 in northern Myanmar.
Range and habitat
The species spend summer months in temperate mixed forests at upper elevations of their range, and descend to lower ground in the winter to escape snow. In contrast to other snub-nosed monkeys that are mostly ground dwellers, the Myanmar snub-nosed monkeys are highly arboreal in habitat behaviour spending much of their times on trees. When first discovered, the only known specimens existed in three or four groups within a 270 square kilometres (100 sq mi) range at 1,700 to 3,200 metres (5,600–10,500 ft) above sea level in the eastern Himalayas, in the north-eastern section of Kachin State, the northernmost part of Burma (Myanmar).
The Chinese population is found within the Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve.
Habitat labels include forest.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Deforestation due to logging operations, isolation and hunting by local humans for food are considered dangers to the small extant population. The known Burmese population size is 260-330 individuals, and it is believed less than 200 remain in China. It is recognized as Critically Endangered by the IUCN.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Myanmar snub-nosed monkey is Critically 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 Myanmar snub-nosed monkey, Wikidata item Q1016718. 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.
