Southern Pig-tailed Macaque

Taxobox
name = Southern Pig-tailed MacaqueMSW3 Groves|pages=163]
status = VU
status_ref = IUCN2006|assessors=Eudey, A. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group|year=2000|title=Macaca nemestrina|id=12555|downloaded=2007-02-05 Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as vulnerable]
trend = unknown
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cercopithecidae
genus = "Macaca"
species = "M. nemestrina"
binomial = "Macaca nemestrina"
binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1766)

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

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External links

* ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Macaca_nemestrina/ images and movies of the Sunda pig-tailed macaque "(Macaca nemestrina)"]