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Assessment of the Diversity of African Primates

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This account of the systematics of African primates is the consensus view of a group of authors who attended the Workshop of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group held at Orlando, Florida, in February 2000. We list all species and subspecies that we consider to be valid, together with a selected synonymy for all names that have been controversial in recent years or that have been considered to be valid by other authors in recent publications. For genera, species-groups or species, we tabulate and discuss different published systematic interpretations, with emphasis on more recent publications. We explain why we have adopted our taxonomic treatment and give particular attention to cases where more research is urgently required and in which systematic changes are most likely to be made. For all taxa, from suborder to subspecies, we provide English names.

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Grubb, P., Butynski, T.M., Oates, J.F. et al. Assessment of the Diversity of African Primates. International Journal of Primatology 24, 1301–1357 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:IJOP.0000005994.86792.b9

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