Aleppo Grass vs Gray-shanked Douc Langur

Sorghum halepense compared with Pygathrix cinerea

Key Differences

• Aleppo Grass is Not Evaluated while Gray-shanked Douc Langur is Critically Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Aleppo Grass	Gray-shanked Douc Langur
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Poales (Grasses)	Primates (Primates)
Family	Poaceae (Grass Family)	Cercopithecidae (Old World Monkeys)
Genus	Sorghum	Pygathrix
Species	Sorghum halepense	Pygathrix cinerea

Conservation Status

Aleppo Grass

NE — Not Evaluated

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

CR — Critically Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Aleppo Grass	Gray-shanked Douc Langur
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Aleppo Grass

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including flooded grasslands and savannas, deserts and xeric shrublands, and mangrove forests and coastal wetlands, among 4 distinct biome types spanning the Indomalayan and Neotropic realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (9 countries), Asia (15 countries), Europe (31 countries), North America (15 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (10 countries), and South America (11 countries).

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Aleppo Grass

The Aleppo Grass (Sorghum halepense) is a species in the genus Sorghum. Found across multiple habitat types including flooded grasslands and savannas, deserts and xeric shrublands, and mangrove forests and coastal wetlands, among 4 distinct biome types spanning the Indomalayan and Neotropic realms.