Lion-tailed macaque

Lion-tailed macaque
Male at Bristol Zoo
Female at Singapore Zoo
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Macaca
Species:
M. silenus[1]
Binomial name
Macaca silenus[1]
Lion-tailed macaque range
Synonyms
  • Macaca albibarbatus (Kerr, 1792)
  • Macaca ferox (Shaw, 1792)
  • Macaca veter (Audebert, 1798)
  • Macaca vetulus (Erxleben, 1777)
  • Macaca silanus (F. Cuvier, 1822)
  • Simia silenus Linnaeus, 1758

The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), also known as the wanderoo, is an Old World monkey endemic to the Western Ghats of South India.

  1. ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 164. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ a b Singh, M.; Kumar, A. & Kumara, H.N. (2020). "Macaca silenus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T12559A17951402. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  3. ^ Linne, C. (1758). "Simia silenius". Systema naturæ. Regnum animale. Vol. I (Tenth ed.). Lipsiæ: Sumptibus Guilielmi Engelmann. p. 26.