Southern pig-tailed macaque

Southern pig-tailed macaque[1]
At the Prague Zoo, Czech Republic
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. nemestrina
Binomial name
Macaca nemestrina
Southern pig-tailed macaque range
Synonyms
  • Macaca broca Miller, 1906
  • Macaca carpolegus (Raffles, 1821)
  • Macaca fusca (Shaw, 1800)
  • Macaca libidinosus I. Geoffroy, 1826
  • Macaca longicruris (Link, 1795)
  • Macaca maimon (de Blainville, 1839)
  • Macaca nucifera Sody, 1936
  • Macaca platypygos (Schreber, 1774)
  • Simia nemestrina Linnaeus, 1766

The southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina), also known as the Sundaland pig-tailed macaque and the Sunda pig-tailed macaque,[2] is a medium-sized macaque that lives in Sundaland, southern Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. It is known locally as beruk.[3]

  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. 163. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ a b Ruppert, N.; Holzner, A.; Hansen, M.F.; Ang, A.; Jones-Engel, L. (2023) [errata version of 2022 assessment]. "Macaca nemestrina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T12555A223433999. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T12555A223433999.en.
  3. ^ "Taxonomy of Macaca nemestrina". Primate Info Net. National Primate Research Center via University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents. Archived from the original on 28 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2018.