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Macaca fascicularis.jpg

Macaca fascicularis  Raffles, 1821

Nicobar Crab-eating Macaque, Crab-eating Macaque, Long-tailed Macaque

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Kingdom: Animalia
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
​Subfamily: Cercopithecinae
​Genus: Macaca
​Species: fascicularis


  • Common names: Nicobar Crab-eating Macaque, Crab-eating Macaque, Long-tailed Macaque
  • Thai names: ลิงแสม
  • Distribution: Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, India (Andaman Is., Nicobar Is.); Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, ​Vietnam. Introduced: Mauritius, Palau, ​Papua New Guinea
  • Image locations: Udon Thani
  • Additional notes: 
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Image locations

Images of Macaca fascicularis from Thailand.
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Macace fascicularis, Udon Thani, October 2013

References: 
​Ong, P. & Richardson, M. 2008. Macaca fascicularis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T12551A3355536. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T12551A3355536.en. Downloaded on 28 March 2019.
Please note that individual species identifications do not necessarily represent the opinion of all contributors.

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