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Chlorocebus aethiops

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Description

Chlorocebus aethiops (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:28.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sudan, Sennaar.

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Ethiopia, south to South Africa; Zanzibar, Pemba, and Mafia (Tanzania); introduced into Lesser Antilles (Caribbean).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: alexandri, arenarius, beniana, budgetti, calliaudi, callidus, callitrichus, cano-viridis, centralis, chrysurus, cinereo-viridis, circumcinctus, cloetei, contigua, cynosuros, djamdjamensis, ellenbecki, excubutor, flavidus, graueri, griseistictus, griseoviridis, helvescens, hilgerti, itimbiriensis, johnstoni, katangensis, lalandii, lukonzolwae, luteus, marjoriae, marrensis, matschiei, nesiotes, ngamiensis, nifoviridis, passargei, pembae, pousarguei, pusillus, pygerythrus, rubellus, rufoniger, rufoviridis, sabaeus, silaceus, tantalus, tephrops, tholloni, toldti, tumbili, viridis, voeltzkowi, weidholzi, werneri, weynsi, whytei.

COMMENTS: Includes pygerythrus, sabaeus, and tantalus; see Struhsaker (1970:376).

Notes

Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Primates, pp. 243-277 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 265, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353122

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Primates
Family
Cercopithecidae
Genus
Chlorocebus
Species
aethiops
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chlorocebus aethiops (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Groves, 1993

References

  • Struhsaker, T. T. 1970. Phylogenetic implications of some vocalizations of Cercopithecus monkeys. Pp. 365 - 444, in Old World Monkeys (J. R. Napier and P. H. Napier, eds.). Academic Press, London, 660 pp.