Southern pig-tailed macaque

Southern pig-tailed macaque
At the Prague Zoo, Czech Republic
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Macaca
Species:
M. nemestrina
Binomial name
Macaca nemestrina
Southern pig-tailed macaque range
Synonyms
List
    • Macaca broca Miller, 1906
    • Macaca carpolegus (Raffles, 1821)
    • Macaca fusca (Shaw, 1800)
    • Macaca libidinosus I. Geoffroy, 1826
    • Macaca longicruris (Link, 1795)
    • Macaca maimon (de Blainville, 1839)
    • Macaca nucifera Sody, 1936
    • Macaca platypygos (Schreber, 1774)
    • Simia nemestrina Linnaeus, 1766

The southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina), also known as the Sundaland pig-tailed macaque and the Sunda pig-tailed macaque, is a medium-sized macaque that lives in Sundaland, southern Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. It is known locally as beruk.