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SPECIES Macaca arctoides

Author:I. Geoffroy, 1831.
Citation:In Belanger (ed.), Voy. Indes Orient., Mamm., 3(Zool.): 61.
Common Name:Stump-tailed Macaque
Type Locality:"Cochin-China" (Indochina).
Distribution:Assam (India) to S China and N Malay Peninsula.
Status:CITES – Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Threatened; IUCN – Vulnerable.
Comments:M. fascicularis species group according to Groves (2001c), but probably derived from an early Pleistocene hybridization between M. fascicularis, which it resembles in its mtDNA, and M. assamensis/thibetana, which it resembles in its Y chromosome. Reviewed by Fooden et al. (1985).
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Synonyms:

    brunneus (Anderson, 1871)
    harmandi (Trouessart, 1897)
    melanotus (Ogilby, 1839)
    melli (Matschie, 1912)
    rufescens (Anderson, 1872)
    speciosus (Murie, 1875)
    ursinus (Gervais, 1854)

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