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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Mammals > Eutheria > Primates > Haplorhini > Catarrhini > Hylobatidae > Hylobates

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Hylobates  

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Entry terms

  • Gibbon
  • Gibbons

Note

  • NIM when experimental animal; diseases: coordinate with specific disease /vet

Scope note

  • A genus of the family HYLOBATIDAE consisting of nine species. The members of this genus inhabit rain forests in southeast Asia. They are arboreal and differ from other anthropoids in the great length of their arms and very slender bodies and limbs. Their major means of locomotion is by swinging from branch to branch by their arms. Hylobates means dweller in the trees.

History note

  • 91(81); was see under PONGIDAE 1981-90; was GIBBONS see under APES 1975-80

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006922

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