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Silvered Leaf Monkey

🇳🇱 Mutslangoer ·Trachypithecus cristatus

VUvulnerable 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Paul Prior · CC BY 4.0
  2. 2. © syuhada · CC BY-NC 4.0
  3. 3. © Carine06 · CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. 4. © Nina Lester Finley · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © matthewkwan · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  6. 6. © Sebastián Lescano · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © Roger Rittmaster · CC BY 4.0
  8. 8. © pfaucher · CC BY-NC 4.0
Silvered Leaf Monkey, photo 1 of 8
1/8 © Paul Prior · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The silvery lutung ( Trachypithecus cristatus ), also known as the silvered leaf monkey or the silvery langur , is an Old World monkey. It is arboreal, living in coastal, mangrove, and riverine forests in Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 1,878iNaturalist observations
  • threat VUvulnerable

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 1,878 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1821 (205 years ago).
  • Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

fact sheet

English
Silvered Leaf Monkey
Nederlands
Mutslangoer
scientific name
Trachypithecus cristatus
class
Mammalia
order
Primates
family
Cercopithecidae
IUCN Red List
VU · vulnerable
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
1,878
GBIF records in NL
2
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1821 by Thomas Stamford Raffles

IUCN in Dutch: kwetsbaar. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Cercopithecidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43497, Wikidata Q368754, GBIF 2436542, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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