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Macaca silenus
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Macaca silenus (Linnaeus 1758)
[Simia] silenus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 26.
Type Locality: " Ceylon " India, Western Ghats; see Osman Hill (1974:652).
Vernacular Names: Lion-tailed Macaque.
Synonyms: Macaca albibarbatus (Kerr 1792); Macaca ferox (Shaw 1792); Macaca veter (Audebert 1798); Macaca vetulus (Erxleben 1777).
Distribution: SW India, Western Ghats.
Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN – Endangered.
Discussion: M. nemestrina species group.
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Primates, pp. 111-184 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 164, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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- Cercopithecidae
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- Macaca silenus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
- Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.
- Erxleben, J. C. P. 1777. Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates, cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis I. Mammalia. Weygandianis, Lipsiae, 636 pp.