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Taxon: Genus Macaca Lacépède, 1799 - macaques (mammal)
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Authorship

Original name:  Lacépède, 1799:4.
Original rank: 
Original spelling: 

Types

Type of: Macacina (Subtribe) Owen, 1843 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 345. [inferred]
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Macaca (Subgenus) Lacépède, 1799
Type: Macaca silenus-sylvanus group
Type: Macaca sylvanus group

Variants

Different rank: Macaca (Subgenus) Lacépède, 1799

Synonyms

Synonymous name: Eopithecus (Genus) Gaudry, 1866 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Including: Cynomolgus (Subgenus) Reichenbach, 1862
Including: Cynopithecus (Genus) Geoffroy, 1835 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 97.
Including: Gymnopyga (Subgenus)
Including: Lyssodes (Subgenus) Gistel, 1848
Including: Rhesus (Subgenus) Lesson, 1840
Including: Silenus (Subgenus) Goldfuss, 1820
Including: Zati (Subgenus) Reichenbach, 1862

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: meerkatten
: makaken

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: macaques
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