Barbary macaque
| Barbary macaque | |
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| Young Barbary macaque with its mother | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Genus: | Macaca |
| Species: | M. sylvanus[2] |
| Binomial name | |
| Macaca sylvanus[2] | |
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| Barbary macaque range | |
| Synonyms | |
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Simia sylvanus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), also known incorrectly as the Barbary ape or magot, is a macaque species native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco. It is one of the best-known Old World monkey species.[4] The Barbary macaque is the monkey with the shortest tail in the world, which causes it to be mistaken for apes, such as gibbons, who don't have tails.
References
- ↑ Wallis, J.; Benrabah, M.E.; Pilot, M.; Majolo, B. & Waters, S. (2020). "Macaca sylvanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T12561A50043570. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- 1 2 Groves, C. P. (2005). "Species Macaca sylvanus". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ Linnaeus, C. (1758). "Simia sylvanus". Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. I (Decima, reformata ed.). Holmiæ: Laurentii Salvii. p. 25.
- ↑ Emmanuel, J. (1982). "A Survey Of Population and Habitat of the Barbary Macaque Macaca sylvanus L. In North Morocco". Biological Conservation. 24 (1): 45–66. doi:10.1016/0006-3207(82)90046-5.