Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Chordata > Class: Mammalia > Order: Primates > Family: Cercopithecidae > Genus: Macaca > Species: Macaca sylvanus

Barbary ape - Macaca sylvanus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Quick facts

Threat status Europe	Not Applicable (IUCN)
Protected by	1 international agreement
Most preferred habitats	sparsely vegetated land
May also occur in	grassland heathland and shrub

Distribution

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Threat and conservation status

IUCN Red List status of threatened species

The IUCN Red List threat status assesses the risk of extinction.

World

Endangered

Europe

Not Applicable

IUCN Red List Category

Not Evaluated	Near Threatened	Regionally Extinct
Not Applicable	Vulnerable	Extinct in the Wild
Data Deficient	Endangered	Extinct
Least Concern	Critically Endangered

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EU conservation status

The EU conservation status is assessed for species mentioned in the EU Habitats Directive annexes. The EU Habitats Directive does not cover this species.

Natura 2000 sites

Not available

Legal status

Mentioned in the following international legal instruments and agreements

Legal text	Annex	Conditions	More information
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)	Annex II: (a) all species which, although not necessarily now threatened with extinction, may become so unless trade in specimens of such species is subject to strict regulation in order to avoid utilization incompatible with their survival; and (b) other species which must be subject to regulation in order that trade in specimens of certain species referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph may be brought under effective control.	Synonym for this species is listed in CITES. See there for more details.	http://www.cites.org/eng

Common names and synonyms

Common Name	Language	Reference
Barbary ape	English	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Berber makákó	Hungarian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Berberabe	Danish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Berberaf	Luxemburgish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Berberapa	Swedish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Berberape	Norwegian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Berberska opica	Slovenian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Bertuccia	Italian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Bezrepi magot	Croatian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Macaco de Gibraltar	Portuguese	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Magot	Czech	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Magot	Danish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Magot	Dutch	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Magot	Estonian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Magot	French	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Magot	German	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Magotas	Lithuanian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Magotti	Finnish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Majmun Makak	Albanian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Makak magot	Polish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Makak magot	Slovak	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Mona de Berbería	Spanish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Serkjaapi	Icelandic	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.

Synonym	Author
Simia sylvanus	Linnaeus, 1758
Macaca sylvana	(Linnaeus, 1758)
Inuus ecaudatus	E. Geoffroy, 1812
Simia inuus	Linnaeus, 1766
Simia pithecus	Schreber, 1799
Pithecus pygmaeus	Reichenbach, 1863

Other resources

CoL (accepted name)	Catalogue of Life
EoL	Encyclopedia of Life
Fauna Europaea	Fauna Europaea
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ITIS (Valid name)	Interagency Taxonomic Information System
NCBI search	National Center for Biotechnology Information
PESI (Accepted)	Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
Species+	Species+ by UNEP-WCMC
Wikipedia	Wikipedia

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