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title: "Silvered Leaf Monkey"
description: "Trachypithecus cristatus — Mammals. The silvery lutung (Trachypithecus cristatus), also known as the silvered leaf monkey or the silvery langur, is an Old World monkey."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/silvered-leaf-monkey
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Silvered Leaf Monkey

> Trachypithecus cristatus — Mammals. The silvery lutung (Trachypithecus cristatus), also known as the silvered leaf monkey or the silvery langur, is an Old World monkey.

- Scientific name: *Trachypithecus cristatus*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammals)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 1817
- Wikidata: [Q368754](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q368754)
- iNaturalist taxon: [43497](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43497)

## Names

- en: Silvered Leaf Monkey
- de: Silberner Haubenlangur
- es: Langur Crestado
- fr: Semnopithèque à coiffe
- nl: Mutslangoer

## Countries with the most observations

MY (1221), ID (294), BN (78)

## Summary

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 Sumatra, Borneo, Java, as well as in parts of the southwestern Malay Peninsula, the Natuna Islands, and other nearby islands. It is the type species of its species group.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvery_lutung

## Photo

![Silvered Leaf Monkey](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/silvered-leaf-monkey/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/257183773

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/silvered-leaf-monkey?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).