Lion-tailed macaque

Lion-tailed macaque
	Male at Bristol Zoo
	Female at Singapore Zoo
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
	CITES Appendix I (CITES)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Cercopithecidae
Genus:	Macaca
Species:	M. silenus
Binomial name
	Macaca silenus; (Linnaeus, 1758)
	Lion-tailed macaque range
Synonyms
	Macaca albibarbatus (Kerr, 1792); Macaca ferox (Shaw, 1792); Macaca veter (Audebert, 1798); Macaca vetulus (Erxleben, 1777); Macaca silanus (F. Cuvier, 1822); Simia silenus Linnaeus, 1758;

The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), also known as the wanderoo, is an Old World monkey endemic to the Western Ghats of South India.

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