Jabarkan Catatan taksonomi dari Owa kelempiau utara

Spesies ini sebelumnya dianggap sebagai anak jenis dari Hylobates muelleri, Hylobates moloch, atau bahkan Hylobates lar.

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. 2016. "Activity budget, travel distance, sleeping time, height of activity and travel order of wild East Bornean Grey gibbons (Hylobates funereus) in Danum Valley Conservation Area". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64: 127–38  (1 July 2016). http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BF830118-CE0A-4D4E-8180-BFE9545F56CF

. 2016. "Population mapping of gibbons in Kalimantan, Indonesia: correlates of gibbon density and vegetation across the species’ range". Endangered Species Research, Vol. 30: 133–43 (May 31, 2016). doi: 10.3354/esr00734