Macaca mulatta : management of a laboratory breeding colony / David Allen Valerio [and others].

Date:
1969
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Credit: Macaca mulatta : management of a laboratory breeding colony / David Allen Valerio [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Classification and Taxonomy 3 CLASSIFICATION AND TAXONOMY The genus Macaca (Lacepède, 1799) comprises a group of closely related animals that are widely distributed in Asia from eastern Af¬ ghanistan and Tibet to China. Southward they extend into the Indian continent and Ceylon in the west, and to the Japanese islands and Formosa in the east. They also occur throughout southeast Asia, being found on the islands of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines, and Ce¬ lebes. The species listed in Table I are currently recognized. The crab-eating macaque {M. fascicularis) has been variously and incorrectly called M. cynomolgus and M. irus; neither name is availa¬ ble according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 1964 (Fooden, 1964). Fooden also states that M. mulatta and M. fascicularis are conspecific. This taxonomic opinion is based on the evidence of three doubtfully intermediate specimens collected in 1924. It may well be that the rhesus monkey and the crab-eater are in reality one species, but to the authors the evidence at present is insuf¬ ficient. The brown stump-tailed macaque has been for many years incorrectly called M. speciosa owing to a misidentification of Cuvier's original description in 1825 (actually of a Japanese macaque); the correct name is M. arctoides, I. Geoffroy, 1831 (Fooden, 1967). The genus Macaca is a category within the family of Old World mon- Table I Currently Recognized Species of the Genus Macaca' Species Common name No. of subspecies M. sylvanus (type species) Barbary ape Toque monkey Bonnet monkey Lion-tailed macaque Pig-tailed macaque Crab-eating macaque Rhesus monkey Assamese macaque Formosan Rock macaque Stump-tailed macaque Japanese macaque Celebes or Moor macaque 0 3 2 0 4 21 4 2 0 4 2 4 M. sinica M. radiata M. silenus M. nemestrina M. fascicularis = (irus) M. mulatta M. assamensis M. cyclopis M. arctoides = (speciosa) M. fuscata M. maurus From Napier and Napier (1967).
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