Macaca sylvanus

– Vulnerable

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

PRIMATES

Family:

CERCOPITHECIDAE

Scientific Name:

Macaca sylvanus

Species Authority:

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/s:

English	—	BARBARY APE, BARBARY MACAQUE
French	—	MACAQUE DE GIBRALTAR, MAGOT COMMUN, MAGOT
Spanish	—	MONO DE BERBEREA, MONO DE GIBRALTAR

Red List Category & Criteria:

VU A1c+2c, C1 ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

2000

Assessor/s:

Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group

Evaluator/s:

Mittermeier, R.A., Konstant, W.R. & Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority)

History:

1986	-	Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Vulnerable (Lee et al. 1988)
1988	-	Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Vulnerable (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Vulnerable (Groombridge 1994)
1996	-	Vulnerable (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Countries:

Native:

Algeria; Morocco

Introduced:

Gibraltar

Population Trend:

System:

Terrestrial

Citation:	Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group 2000. Macaca sylvanus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 August 2008.
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