syndactyla

Updated: May 1, 2025

"Those are apes," said our uncle, pointing them out. "I have one in my collection which I will show you. It is the Siamang syndactyla." It was moving much slower than the monkeys, keeping lower down in the underwood, but still it moved rapidly by means of its long arms.

William Henry Giles Kingston - In the Eastern Seas

Bennett of the Ungka Ape, or Gibbon of Sumatra, the Simia Syndactyla of naturalists. He stood two feet high when on his hind legs, and was covered with black hair, except on the face, the skin of which was also black; the legs were short in proportion to the body and arms, the latter being exceedingly long.

Mrs. R. Lee - Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals

This species is allied to the little long-armed apes of the genus Hylobates, but is considerably larger, and differs from them by having the two first fingers of the feet united together, nearly to the end as does its Latin native, Siamanga syndactyla.

Alfred Russel Wallace - The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1