| Carpenter's lar gibbon | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Hylobatidae |
| Genus: | Hylobates |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | H. l. carpenteri |
| Trinomial name | |
| Hylobates lar carpenteri Groves, 1968 | |
Carpenter's lar gibbon (Hylobates lar carpenteri) is an endangered subspecies of white-handed gibbon, also known as the lar gibbon. [2] [3] It is listed as an endangered species because it is believed to have undergone a decline of more than 50% in the prior three generations due to loss of forest habitat and loss of mature individuals to hunting. [1] The subspecific name honors primatologist Clarence R. Carpenter. [2]
The subspecies is distinguished by sharply distinct dark and light color forms, both having a ring of white hair around the face, with hands and feet white sometimes as far as the wrists and ankles, and the hair much longer than in other subspecies. [2] The dark form is very dark chocolate brown, the tips of the hairs being blackish and their bases silvery-brown, whereas the light form is creamy-white, with the basal one-quarter to one-third of the hairs light gray. [2] Its range is confined to northern and part of northeastern Thailand. [2] In the southwest part of its range, its distribution abuts that of the pileated gibbon, Hylobates pileatus . [2]