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Macaca sinica (toque macaque)

Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

Taxonomy
Simia sinicus was named by Linnaeus (1771). It is extant.

It was recombined as Simia (Cercopithecus) sinicus by Kerr (1792); it was recombined as Macacus sinicus by Owen (1853); it was recombined as Cynamolgus (Zati) sinicus by Reichenbach (1862); it was recombined as Macaca sinica by Hinton and Wroughton (1921).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1771Simia sinicus Linnaeus
1792Simia (Cercopithecus) sinicus Kerr
1853Macacus sinicus Owen p. 752
1862Cynamolgus (Zati) sinicus Reichenbach p. 130
1862Cynamolgus (Zati) audeberti Reichenbach p. 132
1921Macaca sinica Hinton and Wroughton p. 814

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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
speciessinica(Linnaeus 1771)

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 sinica Linnaeus 1771 [toque macaque]
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Invalid names: Cynamolgus (Zati) audeberti Reichenbach 1862 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: arborealf
Diet: frugivoref
Diet 2: folivoref
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-06-08 10:11:09
Modified: 2005-08-22 19:20:00
Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009
Collections
No collection or age range data are available