Rhinopithecus Milne-Edwards 1872

Rhinopithecus Milne-Edwards 1872, Rech. Nat. Hist. Mamm.: 233.

Type Species: Semnopithecus roxellana Milne-Edwards 1872

Synonyms: Presbytiscus Pocock 1924 .

Species and subspecies: 4 species with 3 subspecies:

Species Rhinopithecus avunculus Dollman 1912

Species Rhinopithecus bieti Milne-Edwards 1897

Species Rhinopithecus brelichi Thomas 1903

Species Rhinopithecus roxellana (Milne-Edwards 1870)

Subspecies Rhinopithecus roxellana subsp. roxellana Milne-Edwards 1870

Subspecies Rhinopithecus roxellana subsp. hubeiensis Y. Wang, Jiang and Li 1998

Subspecies Rhinopithecus roxellana subsp. qinlingensis Y. Wang, Jiang and Li 1998

Discussion: Included in Pygathrix by Groves (1970) and Szalay and Delson (1979:404); but see Jablonski and Peng (1993) and Groves (2001 c), who recognized that the two are sister-groups but retained them as separate genera. Jablonski and Peng (1993) recognized Presbytiscus as a valid subgenus.