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Macaca silenus (lion-tailed macaque)

Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

Taxonomy
Simia silenus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Macacus silenus by Owen (1853); it was recombined as Macaca silenus by Thomas (1911).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. majori

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Simia silenus Linnaeus p. 26
1853Macacus silenus Owen p. 752
1911Macaca silenus Thomas p. 126

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
—Euarchonta
orderPrimates
infraorderHaplorhini(Pocock 1918)
—Anthropoidea(Mivart 1864)
infraorderCatarrhiniGeoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
superfamilyCercopithecoidea
familyCercopithecidae
subfamilyCercopithecinae
tribePapionini
genusMacacaLacépède 1799
speciessilenus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Macaca silenus Linnaeus 1758 [lion-tailed macaque]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available