Southern Pig-tailed Macaque

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Southern Pig-tailed Macaque[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Macaca
Species: M. nemestrina
Binomial name
Macaca nemestrina
(Linnaeus, 1766)

The Southern Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) is a medium-sized Old World monkey endemic to the subtropical/dry forests of Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 163. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ a b Eudey, A. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group (2000). Macaca nemestrina. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-02-05. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as vulnerable