Endangered
Sumatran surili
Presbytis melalophos
Sumatran surili is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae (order Primates) — Presbytis melalophos, recorded as Endangered and tied to Indonesia.
Appearance
The black Sumatran langur, black-and-white langur, Sarawak surili, Raffles' banded langur and mitered langur were formerly considered subspecies of P. Melalophos.
Range and habitat
The black-crested Sumatran langur is a forest dwelling animal. It is native to Sumatra and several neighboring islands. From 2000 to 2012, it lost an estimated 62% of its forest habitat.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
With fruit making up 50 to 60 percent of its diet, the rest consists of leaves and occasionally seeds and flowers.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat loss.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Sumatran surili 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 Sumatran surili, Wikidata item Q1247887. 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.
