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Macaca fascicularis (long-tailed macaque; crab-eating macaque)

Synonyms: Semnpithecus kra; Simia fascicularis

Infraspecies

Macaca fascicularis atriceps (Dark-crowned Long-tailed Macaque)
Macaca fascicularis aurea (Myanmar Long-tailed Macaque)
Macaca fascicularis condorensis (Con Son Long-tailed Macaque)
Macaca fascicularis fascicularis (Common Long-tailed Macaque)
Macaca fascicularis fusca (Simeulue Long-tailed Macaque)
Macaca fascicularis karimondjawae (Karimunjawa Long-tailed Macaque)
Macaca fascicularis lasiae (Lasia Long-tailed Macaque)
Macaca fascicularis tua (Maratua Long-tailed Macaque)
Macaca fascicularis umbrosa (Nicobar Long-tailed Macaque)

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Macaca fascicularis

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Macaca fascicularis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.42
EDGE Score: 2.24

Attributes

Gestation [3]  5 months 15 days
Litter Size [3]  1
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  39 years
Snout to Vent Length [2]  20 inches (52 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Coastal, Brackish Water
Weaning [3]  8 months 2 days
Adult Weight [2]  9.835 lbs (4.461 kg)
Birth Weight [3]  320 grams
Female Weight [2]  7.91 lbs (3.588 kg)
Male Weight [2]  11.762 lbs (5.335 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [2]  48.7 %
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  50 %
Diet - Plants [4]  10 %
Forages - Scansorial [4]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  3 years 4 months
Male Maturity [3]  4 years 2 months
Habitat Substrate [1]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Philippines Philippines No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
5Feeding Ecology of the Long-Tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia, Carey P. Yeager, International Journal of Primatology, Vol 17, No. 1 1996, pp. 51-62
6Fruit Preferences of Four Sympatric Primate Species at Ketambe, Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, Peter S. Ungar, International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1995
7"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
9Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
10Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0