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Contributions to Zoology, 69 (3) 157-177 (2000) SPB Academic Publishing bv, The Hague Geographic distribution of ebony leaf monkey Trachypithecus auratus (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812) (Mammalia: Primates: Cercopithecidae) Vincent Nijman Institute for Systematics ami Population Biology (Zoological Museum), University ofAmsterdam, P.O. Box 94766, 1090 GT Amsterdam, The Netherlands Key words: Bali, Colobinae, colobine monkeys, distribution, Indonesia, Java, langur, Lombok, primates Abstract Introduction As one ofthe fundamental units ofecology and biogeography, Being located in the extreme east of the Sundaic the geographicdistributionofthe endemic and threatened ebony subregion, Java and Bali are the most isolated of leaf monkey Trachypithecus auratus (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, land the remaining masses and also furthest from 1812) on the islands of Java, Bali, and Lombok (Indonesia) has the Asian been mainland. Java harbours a im- assessed. All localities where the species has been collected slightly are non-human fauna listed, and forty-two areas (each in itself consisting of poverished primate compared to numerous smaller where the has been recorded the other sites) species Sundaic islands. There are 5 species, are discussed. The forest species occurs in a large variety of including one nocturnal prosimian, the slow loris types, including mangrove, beach, and freshwater swamp forest; 13 Nycticebus coucang, compared to species on everwet lowland and hill forest; dry decidious forest; montane forest Borneo and 12-13 species on mainland Sumatra; to - up 3,000 3,500 m a.s.l.; and in some forest plantations (teak the exact number the Tectona grandis, rasamala Altingia excelsa, acacia Aca- species depends on taxonomy cia spp).
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