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Researchers said they named the new species after the Latin word “sundaica,” meaning “Sundaic,” because it lives on several “major landmasses of the Sundaland, or Sundaic Region.”

The 10-year Asian Langurs Conservation Action Plan focuses on the six countries in the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot, a region known for its astonishing range of habitats and species. Based on ...

Figure a: A paleogeographic map of South Asia and The Sundaland in Southeast Asia over 20,000 years ago. These lands were occupied by their respective earliest settlers. Figure b: Rising sea level ...

rainforests and endemic species. Great Nicobar is part of the Nicobar Islands, which fall within the Sundaland Biodiversity Hotspot, spanning the western half of the Indonesian archipelago.