White-cheeked Macaque
Macaca leucogenys
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Primates
- Family
- Cercopithecidae
The white-cheeked macaque (Macaca leucogenys) is a species of macaque found only in Mêdog County in southeastern Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India. The white-cheeked macaque lives in forest habitats, from tropical forests to primary and secondary evergreen broad-leaved forests and mixed broadleaf-conifer forests. The species was first described by Chinese primatologists Cheng Li, Chao Zhao, and Peng-Fei Fan, in the American Journal of Primatology in 2015.
Macaca leucogenys est une espèce de primates haplorhiniens de la famille des Cercopithecidae. Aire de répartition Ce macaque est endémique de la région autonome du Tibet, en République populaire de Chine. Il se rencontre au xian de Mêdog.
El macaco de mejillas blancas (Macaca leucogenys) es una especie de primate catarrino de la familia Cercopithecidae. Distribución geográfica y hábitat Es endémica de los bosques del sudeste del Tíbet. Su rango altitudinal oscila entre 1395 y 2700 m s.
Distribution
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