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Chlorocebus pygerythrus

Description

Chlorocebus pygerythrus (F. Cuvier 1821)

[Chlorocebus] pygerythrus (F. Cuvier 1821), Hist. Nat. Mammiferes, Vol. 24: 2.

Type Locality: "Africa".

Vernacular Names: Vervet Monkey.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Chlorocebus pygerythrus subsp. pygerythrus F. Cuvier 1821

Subspecies Chlorocebus pygerythrus subsp. excubutor Schwarz 1926

Subspecies Chlorocebus pygerythrus subsp. hilgerti Neumann 1902

Subspecies Chlorocebus pygerythrus subsp. nesiotes Schwarz 1926

Subspecies Chlorocebus pygerythrus subsp. nifoviridis I. Geoffroy 1843

Distribution: Ethiopia (east of Rift Valley), Somalia, to Zambia east of the Luangwa, and South Africa.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II.

Discussion: Separated from aethiops as a species by Dandelot (1959), Kingdon (1997) and Groves (2001 c).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Primates, pp. 111-184 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 159, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cercopithecidae
Genus
Chlorocebus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Primates
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
F. Cuvier
Species
pygerythrus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chlorocebus pygerythrus (Cuvier, 1821) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals. Nature World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, 465 pp.
  • Groves, C. P. 2001 c. Primate taxonomy. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 350 pp.