Alan Richard Mootnick

Alan Richard Mootnick (January 23, 1951 – November 4, 2011), U.S. primatologist. Founder and director of the Gibbon Conservation Center, Santa Clarita, California.

Taxon names authored

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• 2 taxon names authored by Alan Richard Mootnick

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2005

• Mootnick, A. & Groves, C.P. 2005. A new generic name for the hoolock gibbon (Hylobatidae). International Journal of Primatology 26(4): 971–976. DOI: 10.1007/s10764-005-5332-4 Reference page. 

2009

• Hirai, H., Hayano, A., Tanaka, H., Mootnick, A.R., Wijayanto, H. & Perwitasari-Farajallah, D. 2009. Genetic differentiation of agile gibbons between Sumatra and Kalimantan in Indonesia. In Lappan, S. & Whittaker, D.J. (eds.) The gibbons: new perspectives on small ape socioecology and population biology. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects 37. Springer: New York. ISBN 978-0-387-88604-6. DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-88604-6_3 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2010

• Thinh, V.N., Mootnick, A.R., Geissmann, T., Li, M., Ziegler, T., Agil, M., Moisson, P., Nadler, T., Walter, L. & Roos, C. 2010. Mitochondrial evidence for multiple radiations in the evolutionary history of small apes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 74. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-74 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Thinh, V.N., Mootnick, A.R., Thanh, V.N., Nadler, T. & Roos, C. 2010. A new species of crested gibbon, from the central Annamite mountain range. Vietnamese Journal of Primatology 4: 1–12. PDF Reference page. 

Links

• Our Founder: Alan Mootnick. Gibbon Conservation Center.