Myanmar snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri) Description
English: Drawing of Rhinopithecus strykeri.
Polski: Rysunek Rhinopithecus strykeri.
Date 16 May 2012
Source Liedigk R, Yang M, Jablonski NG, Momberg F, Geissmann T, et al. (2012) Evolutionary History of the Odd-Nosed Monkeys and the Phylogenetic Position of the Newly Described Myanmar Snub-Nosed Monkey Rhinopithecus strykeri. PLoS ONE 7(5): e37418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0037418.g001
Author Rasmus Liedigk, Mouyu Yang, Nina G. Jablonski, Frank Momberg, Thomas Geissmann, Ngwe Lwin, Tony Htin Hla, Zhijin Liu, Bruce Wong, Li Ming, Long Yongcheng, Ya-Ping Zhang, Tilo Nadler, Dietmar Zinner, Christian Roos
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The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey or Burmese snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri) is a critically threatened species of colobine monkey discovered in 2010 in northern Burma (Myanmar). It was formally described as a novel species of primate in 2011 based on its fur, beard and tail. A group of the species was discovered in China in 2011. Order: Primates, Family: Cercopithecidae, Genus: Rhinopithecus, Species: Rhinopithecus strykeri Geissmann et al., 2010.