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--> SUPERFAMILY Cercopithecoidea
--> FAMILY Cercopithecidae
--> SUBFAMILY Cercopithecinae
--> GENUS Macaca
SPECIES Macaca fuscata
Author: | Blyth, 1875. | Citation: | J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 44: 6. | Common Name: | Japanese Macaque | Type Locality: | Japan. | Distribution: | Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and adjacent small islands (Japan); Yaku Isl (Ryukyu Isls, Japan). | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Threatened; IUCN – Endangered as M. f. yakui, otherwise Data Deficient. | Comments: | M. mulatta species group. Includes speciosus F. Cuvier, 1825 (not speciosa Blyth, 1875) which was suppressed by Opinion 920 of the International Commision on Zoological Nomenclature (1970); see Fooden (1976). |
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