Cercopithecus mitis

J. Wolf, 1822

Blue Monkey

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Primates
Suborder : Haplorhini
Infraorder : Simiiformes
Parvorder : Catarrhini
Superfamily : Cercopithecoidea
Family : Cercopithecidae
Subfamily : Cercopithecinae
Tribe : Cercopithecini
Genus : Cercopithecus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Wolf, J. 1822. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen merkwürdiger naturgeschichtlicher Gegenstände. Im Verlag des Conrad Tyroff'schen Wappen-Kunst-und Commissions-Bureau's, Nuremberg, 156 pp.

Original name as described

Cercopithecus mitis

Other common names

Diademed Guenon · Diademed Monkey · White-throated Guenon · Elgon Blue Monkey · Pousargues' Monkey · Boutourlini's Blue Monkey · Doggett's Silver Monkey · White-throated Samango · Lomami River Blue Monkey · Golden Monkey · Kolb's Monkey · Samango · Manyara Monkey · Pluto Monkey · Moloney's White-collared Monkey · Tanzania Sykes' Monkey · Rump-spotted Monkey · Stuhlmann's Blue Monkey · Zammarano's Monkey · Schouteden's Blue Monkey · Sykes' Monkey · Zanzibar Sykes's Monkey · Stairs's Monkey · Stairs's White-collared Monkey

Type locality

Guinea, but possibly Angola according to P. Napier in 1981.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Ethiopia · South Sudan · Kenya · Somalia · Uganda · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Rwanda · Burundi · Tanzania · Angola · Zambia · Malawi · Mozambique · Zimbabwe · South Africa · Eswatini

Taxonomy notes

includes albogularis, doggetti, kandti

Taxonomy notes citation

Butynski, T.M. & de Jong, Y.A. 2019. Cercopithecus mitis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T4221A17946784. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T4221A17946784.en. Downloaded on 15 August 2020.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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