Macaca munzala: A New Species from Western Arunachal Pradesh, Northeastern India*

Sinha, Anindya; Datta, Aparajita; Madhusudan, M. D.; Mishra, Charudutt

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“…Truly new primate species, much less genera, are exceedingly rare and often, like the kipunji and Arunachal macaque (Sinha et al, 2005;Chakraborty et al, 2007), are Red Listed as soon as they are described Kumar et al, 2008). Ethologists, morphologists, and molecular phylogeneticists must race poachers and habitat destruction to characterize and understand newly discovered primates while they still exist in their natural environments.…”

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“…Additionally, the kipunji cranium offers no evidence of hybrid ancestry. But there is no reason to expect classic hybrid traits (e.g., supernumerary teeth; Ackermann et al, 2006) in a lineage that has had thousands of generations to weed out conflicts between its parental genomes, as witnessed by the fact that the kipunji and other such suspected hybrid taxa have been identified solely on the basis of their DNA (Tosi et al, 2000;Sinha et al, 2005;Chakraborty et al, 2007;Karanth, 2008;Karanth et al, 2008;Osterholz et al, 2008;Burrell et al, 2009;Zinner et al, 2009). …”

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Bringing Up Baby: Developmental Simulation of the Adult Cranial Morphology of Rungwecebus Kipunji

Singleton

McNulty

Frost

et al. 2010

The Anatomical Record

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Rungwecebus kipunji is a recently discovered, critically endangered primate endemic to southern Tanzania. Although phenetically similar to mangabeys, molecular analyses suggest it is more closely related to Papio or possibly descended from an ancient population of baboon-mangabey hybrids. At present, only a single kipunji specimen, an M1-stage juvenile male, is available for study; thus, the cranial morphology of the adult kipunji is unknown. In this study, we used developmental simulation to estimate the adult kipunji's 3D cranial morphology. We examined variation in cercopithecine developmental vectors, applied selected vectors to the juvenile cranium, and compared the resulting simulated adults to actual adult male papionins. Differences between papionin developmental vectors were small and statistically insignificant. This uniformity suggests conservation of an ancestral papionin developmental program. Simulated kipunji adults were likewise extremely similar. As a group, the simulated adults were morphometrically distinct from other papionins, corroborating the kipunji's generic status. Simulated adults were phenetically most similar to Lophocebus aterrimus but were distinguished from all adult papionins by the same unique traits that characterize the kipunji juvenile: a tall neurocranium, broad face, short nasal bones, concave anteorbital profile, and dorsally rotated palate. This concordance between juvenile and estimated-adult morphologies confirms that papionin cranial shape is largely established before M1 eruption. The estimated kipunji adult's neurocranium strongly resembles that of Papio, providing the first cranial evidence supporting their phylogenetic relationship. If the kipunji does indeed have a hybrid origin, then its phenetic affinity to L. aterrimus favors Lophocebus as the proto-kipunji's paternal lineage. Anat Rec, 293:388-401, 2010. V V C 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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Bringing Up Baby: Developmental Simulation of the Adult Cranial Morphology of Rungwecebus Kipunji

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McNulty

Frost

et al. 2010

The Anatomical Record

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“…The northeastern part of Ind a (c.255,000 km²), compr sng seven states, supports the h ghest d vers ty ( spec es) of pr mates n the country (Choudhury 200 ;Sr vastava and Mohnot 200 ;Kumar et al 2005;S nha et al 2005). Of these states, Arunachal Pradesh (26º28′ -29º30′ N, 9 º30′ -97º30′ E; 83,743 km²) s arguably the country's r chest reg on n terms of terrestr al b od vers ty.…”

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“…Currently, our knowledge of the Arunachal macaque's d str but on and populat on s zes are not adequate to perm t an nformed cho ce of an appropr ate schedule of the act. Furthermore, g ven that our knowledge of the morphology, genetics, and taxonomic variation among the macaques of northeastern Ind a s st ll nc p ent (Kumar et al 2005;S nha et al 2005;Chakraborty et al n prep), t s perhaps more essent al to support the conservat on of all spec es n th s macaque evolut onary hotspot, rather than des gnate nd v dual spec es nto schedules on the bas s of ncomplete b ologcal and ecolog cal nformat on. In add t on, the effect veness of leg slat ve nstruments to effect conservat on s completely dependent on the ab l ty to mplement them across d ffer ng sociocultural contexts.…”

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Distribution and Conservation Status of the Arunachal Macaque, Macaca munzala, in Western Arunachal Pradesh, Northeastern India

Sinha

Kumar

Gama

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Primate Conservation

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“…In taxonomic terms, more than 20 genera and over 80 species are recognised (Grubb et al, 2003;Brandon-Jones et al, 2004), more genera than either the New World monkeys or the Malagasy strepsirhines. Recent surveys have added to their biodiversity, including the Arunachal Macaque in India and the Kipunji in Tanzania which were both only discovered in 2005 (Jones et al, 2005;Sinha et al, 2005). In ecological terms, Old World monkeys occupy a greater variety of habitats than do any other primate except humans (Campbell et al, 2010).…”

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Old World Monkeys

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Rosenberger

Hartwig

2011

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

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Based in part on the previous version of this Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) article, Old World Monkeys by Walter Carl Hartwig and Alfred L Rosenberger.Old World monkeys, or cercopithecoids, are a diverse and widespread group of primates found throughout Africa and Asia. They are characterised by their specialised molar teeth, quadrupedal running behaviour, often spending more time on the ground than other primates, as well as their often large and complex social groups. They survive in the widest range of habitats of any nonhuman primates, with some species restricted to humid tropical forests whereas others are found in mountains and deserts. There are two main groups: the cercopithecines, which have cheek-pouches and include macaques, baboons, mangabeys, vervets and guenons; and the colobines, characterised by complex stomach anatomy that allows them to digest leaves and which include langurs, proboscis monkeys, doucs and snub-nosed monkeys and colobus monkeys. Although they are termed 'monkeys' they are more closely related to apes and humans (hominoids) than they are to the monkeys of Central and South America.

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Macaca munzala: A New Species from Western Arunachal Pradesh, Northeastern India*

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Bringing Up Baby: Developmental Simulation of the Adult Cranial Morphology of Rungwecebus Kipunji

Bringing Up Baby: Developmental Simulation of the Adult Cranial Morphology of Rungwecebus Kipunji

Distribution and Conservation Status of the Arunachal Macaque, Macaca munzala, in Western Arunachal Pradesh, Northeastern India

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