Editing Proboscis monkey (section)

== Taxonomy ==
The proboscis monkey belongs to the subfamily [[Colobinae]] of the [[Old World monkey]]s. The two subspecies are:<ref name=iucn/>
*''N. l. larvatus'' (Wurmb, 1787), which occupies the whole range of the species excluding northeast [[Kalimantan]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Harding |first=Lee E. |date=2015-12-01 |title=Nasalis larvatus (Primates: Colobini) |url=https://academic.oup.com/mspecies/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/mspecies/sev009 |journal=Mammalian Species |language=en |volume=47 |issue=926 |pages=84–99 |doi=10.1093/mspecies/sev009 |issn=1545-1410}}</ref>
*''N. l. orientalis'' (Chasen, 1940), restricted to north-east Kalimantan<ref name=":2" />
However, the difference between the subspecies is small, and not all authorities recognise ''N. l. orientalis''.<ref name=iucn/>

The genus name ''Nasalis'' comes from the [[Latin]] word ''nasus'' meaning "nose".<ref name="LD">{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dnasus1 |title= nāsus |last1= Lewis |first1= Charlton T. |last2= Short |first2= Charles |dictionary= A Latin Dictionary |edition= |publisher= Perseus Digital Library |date = 1879 }}</ref>{{Explain |reason=Who named & gave 1st description? |date=June 2024}}{{Additional citation needed|date=August 2023}}

This animal was made known to Westerners by Baron [[Friedrich von Wurmb]] in 1781, he later sent specimens of it to [[Stamford Raffles]] in Europe.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Lydekker |editor-first1=Richard |date=1894 |title=The Royal Natural History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vUNKAAAAYAAJ&dq=1781+proboscis+monkey&pg=PA84 |location=New York, USA |publisher=Frederick Warne & Co. |pages=84–85 }}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=August 2023}}