Bitter Apple vs Gray-shanked Douc Langur

Solanum incanum compared with Pygathrix cinerea

Key Differences

• Bitter Apple is Least Concern while Gray-shanked Douc Langur is Critically Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bitter Apple	Gray-shanked Douc Langur
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Solanales (Solanales)	Primates (Primates)
Family	Solanaceae	Cercopithecidae (Old World Monkeys)
Genus	Solanum	Pygathrix
Species	Solanum incanum	Pygathrix cinerea

Conservation Status

Bitter Apple

LC — Least Concern

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

CR — Critically Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bitter Apple	Gray-shanked Douc Langur
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bitter Apple

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, among 6 distinct biome types within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Bitter Apple

The Bitter Apple (Solanum incanum) is a species in the genus Solanum. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, among 6 distinct biome types within the Af