Mysterious Creatures : A Guide to Cryptozoology

1998 in Vietnam’s Central Highlands and have
since been considered distinct from the two other
species of douc langur.
Greater bamboo lemur. Hapalemur simus.
Short-legged, thickset lemur with a bushy tail.
Thought extinct since 1900, this lemur was rediscovered
in 1972 by two French ecologists near
Kianjavato, Madagascar, and sighted again in
1986.
Guizhou snub-nosed monkey. Rhinopithecus
brelichi. Large monkey with a long, black tail tipped
with white. First described in 1903 from specimens
collected in the Fanjing Shan Range, Guizhou
Province, China. Formerly considered a subspecies
of the Golden snub-nosed monkey (R. roxellana).
Hà Tinh langur. Trachypithecus françoisi hatinhensis.
A black monkey with bands of white hair
running from both corners of its mouth to the
back of its head. First discovered in 1970 in Phong
Nha Nature Reserve, Vietnam. There are only
thirty to forty left in the Khe Nê´t Nature Preserve.
Hairy-eared dwarf lemur. Allocebus trichotis.
Grayish-brown lemur, with a reddish-brown tail.
One of the rarest lemurs, found in 1874 and
thought extinct until rediscovered in 1966. Two
additional live animals were found south of the
Mananara River in 1989. Confined to the area of
Mananara National Park, Madagascar.
Ka’apor capuchin. Cebus olivaceus kaapori.
Grayish-brown monkey with silver-gray shoulders,
discovered in Amazonas State, Brazil, by Heldor
Queiroz and first described in 1992. At first, it was
designated as a full species, but it’s now considered
a subspecies of the Weeping capuchin (C. olivaceus).
Named after the Urubú-Ka’apor Indians
of Maranhão State, where it is also found.
Kloss’s gibbon. Hylobates klossii. Small gibbon
first described in 1903 by Gerrit S. Miller from a
specimen found on the island of Pagai Selatan, Indonesia.
Still found on all the islands of the
Mentawai group. Weighs about 13 pounds.
Manicoré marmoset. Callithrix manicorensis.
Squirrel-sized, silvery-white monkey with an orange-yellow
belly and black tail, discovered by
Marc Van Roosmalen in 1996 along the Rio Manicoré,
Brazil, and described in 2000.
Martin’s false potto. Pseudopotto martini. Discovered
in 1996 by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, who was
looking at Potto (Perodicticus potto) specimens at
the University of Zurich. Not seen in the wild; the
specimens had come from Cameroon originally.
628 ANIMALS DISCOVERED SINCE 1900
Matundu dwarf galago. Galagoides udzungwensis.
Discovered in Tanzania and first described
by P. Honess in 1996.
Miss Waldron’s red colobus monkey. Procolobus
badius waldroni. Discovered by
Willoughby Lowe in western Ghana in 1933 and
officially declared extinct in 2000.
Mountain gorilla. Gorilla gorilla beringei. The
largest known living nonhuman primate, first retrieved
by Oscar von Beringe in 1902 from the
Virunga Volcanos region of the Democratic Republic
of the Congo. The average adult male
stands 5 feet 6 inches tall, though an outside
height of 6 feet 4 inches has been verified. The hair
is darker and longer than that of the Lowland gorilla,
and it has larger jaws and teeth. Only about
630 individuals currently remain in Virunga National
Park.
Mouse lemurs. Three new species from Madagascar—Berthe’s
mouse lemur (Microcebus
berthae), Sambirano mouse lemur (M. sambiranensis),
and Northern rufous mouse lemur (M. tavaratra)—were
described in December 2000 by Steve
Goodman and Rodin Rasoloarison.
Northern talapoin. Miopithecus ogouensis.
Small, yellowish monkey with a flesh-colored face
and yellow-olive crown found in 1969 and described
in 1997. It lives in Gabon in the Ogooué
River drainage.
Pygmy mouse lemur. Microcebus myoxinus.
The smallest primate in the world, this lemur
weighs only 1 ounce when fully grown. First collected
in 1852, it became taxonomically confused
with other mouse lemurs until 1994, when its
species status was rehabilitated by Jutta Schmid
and Peter Kappeler. It lives in the Kirindy Forest
of western Madagascar.
Pygmy slow loris. Nycticebus pygmaeus. Littleknown,
reddish-brown primate from Vietnam,
Cambodia, and Laos, first described by J. Lewis
Bonhote in 1907. Nearly killed off during the
Vietnam War, it has since been rehabilitated.
Pygmy tarsier. Tarsius pumilus. Small tarsier
(less than 12 inches long) first collected in 1918 in
central Sulawesi, Indonesia, but not generally accepted
until 1987.
Rio Acarí marmoset. Callithrix acariensis.
Squirrel-sized, white monkey discovered by Marc
Van Roosmalen in 1996 along the Rio Acarí,
Brazil, and described in 2000.
Rio Maués marmoset. Callithrix mauesi.