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Hylobates  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • 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.

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Entry terms

  • Gibbons
  • txid9578

In other languages

  • French

  • Gibbons
  • Nomascus
  • Symphalangus
  • txid9578

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-J8JSPMK1-D

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