Barbary macaque

The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), also known as Barbary ape or magot, is a macaque species native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco. It is one of the best-known Old World monkey species.^[4]

Barbary macaque
Young Barbary macaque with its mother
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Cercopithecidae
Genus:	Macaca
Species:	M. sylvanus[2]
Binomial name
Macaca sylvanus[2] (Linnaeus, 1758)[3]
Barbary macaque range
Synonyms
Simia sylvanus Linnaeus, 1758