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Macaca mulatta (rhesus monkey)
Taxonomy
Cercopithecus mulatta was named by Zimmermann (1780). It is extant.
It was recombined as Macaca mulatta by Hinton and Wroughton (1921), Kurten (1968), Meireles et al. (1999) and Jablonski (2002).
It was recombined as Macaca mulatta by Hinton and Wroughton (1921), Kurten (1968), Meireles et al. (1999) and Jablonski (2002).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1780 | Cercopithecus mulatta Zimmermann p. 195 |
| 1792 | Simia (Cercopithecus) fulvus Kerr p. 73 |
| 1798 | Simia rhesus Audebert |
| 1800 | Simia erythraea Shaw p. 33 |
| 1840 | Macacus (Pithex) oinops Hodgson p. 1212 |
| 1853 | Macacus rhesus Owen p. 750 |
| 1904 | Macacus rhesus Bradley p. 99 |
| 1921 | Macaca mulatta Hinton and Wroughton p. 668 |
| 1968 | Macaca mulatta Kurten p. 58 |
| 1999 | Macaca mulatta Meireles et al. p. 11 |
| 2002 | Macaca mulatta Jablonski |
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Macaca mulatta Zimmermann 1780 [rhesus monkey]
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Invalid names: Macacus (Pithex) oinops Hodgson 1840 [synonym], Simia (Cercopithecus) fulvus Kerr 1792 [synonym], Simia erythraea Shaw 1800 [synonym], Simia rhesus Audebert 1798 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guangdong) | Macaca mulatta (40341) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Guangdong) | Macaca mulatta (13293) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | China (Hubei) | Macaca mulatta (92787) |