Presbytis

Belongs within: Cercopithecidae.

Presbytis, surilis, is a southeast Asian genus of leaf-eating monkeys with short muzzles and undeveloped brow ridges (Brandon-Jones 1984).

Characters (Brandon-Jones 1984): Longitudinal crest; brow ridges usually poorly developed or absent; bridge of nose convex; muzzle short; projection on inner face of relatively broad, underjetted lower incisors; lower third molar with fifth cusp usually reduced or absent, upper third molar with cusp development variable; fore arm relatively long; coat of newborn whitish.

<==Presbytis
    |  i. s.: P. cristataBP87
    |         P. entellusBP87
    |         P. francoisiBP87
    |         P. geeiBP87
    |         P. johniBP87
    |         P. obscuraBP87
    |         P. phayreiBP87
    |         P. pileataBP87
    |         P. senexBP87
    |--P. thomasiFS15
    `--+--+--P. potenzianiFS15
       |  `--+--P. comataFS15 [incl. P. aygulaB-J84]
       |     `--+--P. melalophosFS15
       |        `--P. rubicundaFS15
       `--+--+--P. frontataFS15
          |  `--P. hoseiFS15
          `--+--P. chrysomelasFS15
             |--P. femoralisFS15
             |--P. natunaeFS15
             `--P. siamensisFS15

Inorganic: Presbytis eutellus minilorientalus Okamura 1987^O87

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[B-J84] Brandon-Jones, D. 1984. Colobus and leaf monkeys. In: Macdonald, D. (ed.) All the World’s Animals: Primates pp. 102–113. Torstar Books: New York.

[BP87] Burton, J. A., & B. Pearson. 1987. Collins Guide to the Rare Mammals of the World. Collins: London.

[FS15] Faurby, S., & J.-C. Svenning. 2015. A species-level phylogeny of all extant and late Quaternary extinct mammals using a novel heuristic-hierarchical Bayesian approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 14–26.

[O87] Okamura, C. 1987. New facts: Homo and all Vertebrata were born simultaneously in the former Paleozoic in Japan. Original Report of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory 15: 347–573.