Gray-shanked Douc Langur vs Pencil flower

Pygathrix cinerea compared with Stylosanthes guianensis

Key Differences

• Gray-shanked Douc Langur is Critically Endangered while Pencil flower is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Gray-shanked Douc Langur	Pencil flower
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	Stylosanthes
Species	Pygathrix cinerea	Stylosanthes guianensis

Conservation Status

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

CR — Critically Endangered

Pencil flower

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Gray-shanked Douc Langur	Pencil flower
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Pencil flower

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Indomalayan biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (8 countries), Asia (7 countries), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (6 countries), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).