Preface

First of all I want to thank the Editorial IntechOpen for having placed their trust in order to act as Academic Editor of the book Endemic Species. I also want to thank the help given to the co-editors of this book, who have acted generously, using part of their time in this project; and of course my deepest thanks to the group of authors who have participated in this book, without which it would have been impossible to edit.

The value of this book is in its content and in the thematic diversity it contains. It is a book that focuses on various topics concerning the concept of endemicity. It presents studies of endemic plant and animal species from different territories of the world, highlighting the specific richness of the study territories and their conservation status. It also opens up to other health-related topics, such as certain endemic diseases. Readers will enjoy reading updated scientific topics related to botany, zoology and medicine.

This book aims to bring the reader up-to-date topics, mainly about endemic plants and animals of the world, and in particular about those places on the planet that act as hot spots due to their high rate of endemism. Endemism is a phenomenon of stenochoria, therefore it has a distribution area more or less restricted to a given territory.

The first author who used the term endemic in a botanical sense was De Candolle, who applied the term to families and genera that grew up in a single country. Endemic taxa are highly attractive to researchers and scientists, since they are very rare plants or animals that occupy a certain area and are frequently in danger of extinction, a fact that has bothered botanists such as Favarger, who commented, "If an endemic species is destroyed, this represents an irreversible loss, equivalent to genocide." Braun-Blanquet indicates that the study and exact interpretation of the endemism of a territory is the supreme criterion for any consideration regarding the origin and age of the plant population. Endemism is therefore a phenomenon that has always attracted the attention of researchers; for this reason the edition of this work is justified.

I want to thank IntechOpen for having placed their trust in me and asking me to act as Academic Editor for this volume. I also want to thank my co-editors, who have acted generously and donated their time to this project. And finally, my deepest thanks go to the group of authors who contributed to this book.

**IV**

**II**

**Section 2**

Eastern Indonesia

Snub-Nosed Monkey

*by Jiang Zhou and Huaiqing Deng*

Mankon Kingdom of Northwest Cameroon?

*by Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta and Ngwa Donald Anye*

Animal Biology **117**

**Chapter 7 119**

**Chapter 8 129**

**Chapter 9 147** Modern State Law: Regulating Tradition or Protecting the Environment in the

The Genotyping of Glucose 6 Phosphate Dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD-d) in Malaria Endemic South Central Timor, East Nusa Tenggara,

*by Jontari Hutagalung, M. Soleha, Nikson Sitorus and Linawati Hananta*

Two Endemic Primates' Species in China: Hainan Gibbon and Guizhou

**Eusebio Cano Carmona and Ana Cano Ortiz** University of Jaen, Spain

**Carmelo Maria Musarella** "Mediterranea" University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

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Section 1

Vegetal Biology
