Southern pig-tailed macaque

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)
Southern Pig-tailed Macaque range

The southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) is a medium-sized Old World monkey found in the southern half of the Malay Peninsula (only just extending into southernmost Thailand), Borneo, Sumatra and Bangka Island.[1] This omnivorous macaque is mostly found in forest, but will also enter plantations and gardens.[3] It formerly included the northern pig-tailed, Pagai Island, and Siberut macaques as subspecies.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 163. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100552. 
  2. ^ Richardson, M., Mittermeier, R. A., Rylands, A. B. & Konstant, B. (2008). Macaca nemestrina. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 January 2009.
  3. ^ Payne, J., and C. M. Francis. 1998. A Field Guide to the Mammals of Borneo. The Sabah Society, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. ISBN 967-99947-1-6

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