Gray-shanked Douc Langur vs red spiderling

Pygathrix cinerea compared with Boerhavia diffusa

Key Differences

• Gray-shanked Douc Langur is Critically Endangered while red spiderling is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Gray-shanked Douc Langur	red spiderling
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Primates (Primates)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Cercopithecidae (Old World Monkeys)	Nyctaginaceae
Genus	Pygathrix	Boerhavia
Species	Pygathrix cinerea	Boerhavia diffusa

Conservation Status

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

CR — Critically Endangered

red spiderling

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Gray-shanked Douc Langur	red spiderling
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

red spiderling

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, among 5 distinct biome types within the Indomalayan biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (11 countries), Asia (7 countries), and South America (4 countries).