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Morphometric analysis ofMacaca arctoides andM. thibetana in relation to other macaque species

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As a first step in reviewing the classification of the two stump-tailed macaque species,Macaca arctoides andM. thibetana, as compared with other species of the genusMacaca, 72 linear dental and cranial variables of 11 macaque species were examined by morphometric analyses. The results indicate that the two stump-tailed species are the largest of the macaques and although rather similar overall, they exhibit significant differences in the pattern of variation in most of the five skull regions as shown by Principal Components and Canonical Variate Analyses. Euclidean Distances based on Canonical Variate scores indicate that the females ofM. arctoides andM. thibetana are more widely separated than eight other pairs of macaque species, and that the separations of the respective males are greater than those of three other pairs of species. These findings are consistent withFooden's classification of the stump-tailed macaques as two separate species (Fooden, 1976;Fooden et al., 1985). The present results suggest, as other researchers have proposed on the basis of external features, biochemistry and genetics, that the two stump-tailed macaque species andM. assamensis are closely related. The results also tentatively imply associations withM. fuscata andM. sylvanus but these require further study. The findings have implications for the assessment of the various Chinese Pleistocene macaque fossils.

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  1. Department of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia, 6907, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

    Ruliang Pan

  2. Kunming Institute of Zoology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650223, Yunnan, China

    Ruliang Pan

  3. California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, 94118-4599, San Francisco, California, USA

    N. G. Jablonski

  4. Department of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia, 6907, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

    C. Oxnard & L. Freedman

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Pan, R., Jablonski, N.G., Oxnard, C. et al. Morphometric analysis ofMacaca arctoides andM. thibetana in relation to other macaque species. Primates 39, 519–537 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02557573

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