Gray-shanked Douc Langur vs Green wattle

Pygathrix cinerea compared with Acacia decurrens

Key Differences

• Gray-shanked Douc Langur is Critically Endangered while Green wattle is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Gray-shanked Douc Langur	Green wattle
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Primates (Primates)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Cercopithecidae (Old World Monkeys)	Fabaceae
Genus	Pygathrix	Acacia
Species	Pygathrix cinerea	Acacia decurrens

Conservation Status

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

CR — Critically Endangered

Green wattle

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Gray-shanked Douc Langur	Green wattle
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Green wattle

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, and tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, among 5 distinct biome types spanning the Afrotropic and Indomalayan and Neotropic realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (7 countries), Asia (6 countries), Europe (6 countries), North America (Haiti, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (Fiji, Micronesia, New Zealand), and South America (4 countries).