fern-grass vs Gray-shanked Douc Langur

Catapodium rigidum compared with Pygathrix cinerea

Key Differences

• fern-grass is Endangered while Gray-shanked Douc Langur is Critically Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	fern-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	Catapodium	Pygathrix
Species	Catapodium rigidum	Pygathrix cinerea

Conservation Status

fern-grass

EN — Endangered

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

CR — Critically Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	fern-grass	Gray-shanked Douc Langur
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

fern-grass

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, montane grasslands and shrublands, and Mediterranean forests and woodlands, among 9 distinct biome types. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (South Africa), Asia (Japan), Europe (10 countries), North America (Mexico), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia), and South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile). Currently classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.