Trachypithecus (Trachypithecus) ebenus Brandon-Jones 1995

Trachypithecus (Trachypithecus) ebenus Brandon-Jones 1995, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 43: 15.

Type Locality: "Indo China ": probably either Lai Chau or Fan Si Pan chain (ca. 22°30’N, 103°50’E) according to Brandon-Jones (1995).

Vernacular Names: Indochinese Black Langur.

Distribution: Unknown. May be restricted to region of type locality (Brandon-Jones, 1995); but apparently occurs in Hin Namno National Biodiversity Conservation area, Laos, on Vietnam border at about 17°30’N according to Nadler (1998).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient as T. francoisi ebenus .

Discussion: T. francoisi species group. Described as a subspecies of T. auratus by Brandon-Jones (1995), but raised to species rank and transferred to the T. francoisi group by Groves (2001 c).