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Crab-eating Macaque

Mammals

Macaca fascicularis, commonly called the crab-eating macaque, long-tailed macaque or cynomolgus monkey, is native to Southeast Asia and thrives near human settlements and in secondary forest as a synanthropic species. It lives in matrilineal groups of ten to eighty-five individuals, with females remaining in their birth group and males leaving at puberty, and it is the only Old World monkey known to use stone tools while foraging. The most heavily traded primate species and the most widely used in scientific research, it was listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List in 2022 because of those same pressures.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Omnivore 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Relationship to People
Agricultural or Structural Pest 2
Living or Extinct
Yes 3
Derived from this species' own Conservation Status: this atlas's IUCN category list has no Extinct value, so a set conservation-status is itself evidence of living status.
Scientific Name
Macaca fascicularis 2
Conservation Status
Endangered 2
Comparison
CITES Appendix
Appendix II 4
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Cercopithecidae, Taxa
Source Catalogue of Life

In Biome

Mangrove Forest, Biomes
Source Macaca fascicularis (Wikipedia)
Tropical Rainforest, Biomes
Source Macaca fascicularis (Wikipedia)
Xeric Shrubland, Biomes
Source Macaca fascicularis (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases

Found In

Brazil

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China

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Colombia

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Cuba

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Malaysia

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Mauritius

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Norway

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Palau

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South Asia

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Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)
2. Crab-eating Macaque (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph
    Macaca fascicularis, variously known by common names such as crab-eating macaque, long-tailed macaque, or cynomolgus monkey, is a macaque species native to Southeast Asia.
  • Conservation section
    Its IUCN Red List status was uplisted in 2020 and again in 2022 from the Least Concern classification in 2008 as a result of declining population resulting from hunting and troublesome interactions with humans.
  • thrives near human settlements and secondary forests
  • even being pests in some cases
View the Source
3. GBIF Species API
GBIF Species APIView the Source
4. Macaca fascicularis (Wikipedia)
  • Article text
    The crab-eating macaque is listed on CITES Appendix II.
  • In Biome: Mangrove Forest, Distribution and habitat
    It lives in a wide variety of habitats, including primary lowland rainforests, disturbed and secondary rainforests, shrubland, and riverine and coastal forests of nipa palm and mangrove.
  • In Biome: Tropical Rainforest, Distribution and habitat
    It lives in a wide variety of habitats, including primary lowland rainforests, disturbed and secondary rainforests, shrubland, and riverine and coastal forests of nipa palm and mangrove.
  • In Biome: Xeric Shrubland, Distribution and habitat
    It lives in a wide variety of habitats, including primary lowland rainforests, disturbed and secondary rainforests, shrubland, and riverine and coastal forests of nipa palm and mangrove.
View the Source
Wikidata: Crab-eating Macaque
Wikidata Q301676, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Catalogue of Life
Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of LifeChild Taxon Of: CercopithecidaeView the Source
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