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Cercopithecus cephus

Description

Cercopithecus cephus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:27.

TYPE LOCALITY: Africa.

DISTRIBUTION: Gabon, Congo Republic, S Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, SW Central African Republic, NW Angola.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: buccalis, cephodes, inobservatus, pulcher.

COMMENTS: May include erythrotis; see Struhsaker (1970:374-376); but also see Dandelot (1974:23); may include sclateri, but see Kingdon (1980:461).

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 263, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353122

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cercopithecidae
Genus
Cercopithecus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Primates
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
cephus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cercopithecus cephus (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.
  • Dandelot, P. 1974. Order Primates. Part 3. Pp. 1 - 45, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
  • Kingdon, J. 1980. The role of visual signals and face patterns in African forest monkeys (guenons) of the genus Cercopithecus. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 35: 431 - 475.