Siberut Macaque

Taxobox
name = Siberut MacaqueMSW3 Groves|id=12100560]
status = VU
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2007 | assessors = Eudey, A. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group | year = 2000 | title = Macaca pagensis "ssp." siberu | id = 39795 | downloaded = 2008-04-20]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cercopithecidae
genus = "Macaca"
species = "M. siberu"
binomial = "Macaca siberu"
binomial_authority = Fuentes & Olson, 1995

The Siberut Macaque ("Macaca siberu") is a highly endangered species of macaque, which is endemic to Siberut Island in Indonesia. It was formerly considered conspecific with "M. pagensis" (which is overall paler), but this arrangement is polyphyletic. [Roos, C., T. Zieglerb, J. K. Hodgesb, H. Zischlera, and C. Abegg. 2003. "Molecular phylogeny of Mentawai macaques: taxonomic and biogeographic implications." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 29(1): 139-150.] Both were formerly considered subspecies of "M. nemestrina".

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