Lophocebus johnstoni

(Lydekker, 1900)

Johnston's Mangabey

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Lydekker, R. 1900-12. Note on two mangabey-like monkeys (_Cercocebus hagenbecki_ and _Semnocebus albigena rothschildi_), now living in the menagerie of the Zoological Society. Novitates Zoologicae 7(4):593-596.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3266803

Original name as described

Semnocebus albigena johnstoni

Other common names

Johnston's Crested Mangabey

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1895.4.28.1

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/1f972972-e17d-4e7e-9a7a-c7cd959a7bf5 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/e8abfe3e-283a-45fa-81de-64b4844d7e0a

Type locality

Congo-Zaire, near Lake Tanganyika. Restricted by Lorenz von Liburnau in 1917 to Semliki or Ituri Forest, and the type locality was fixed by E. Schwarz in 1910 to (present-day) Burundi, north-east of Lake Tanganyika.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Democratic Republic of the Congo · Rwanda · Burundi · Uganda? · South Sudan?

Taxonomy notes

split from L. albigena; some authorities continue to place this species as a subspecies of L. albigena, but it is tentatively retained as distinct species here pending further research

Taxonomy notes citation

Groves, C. P. (2007). The endemic Uganda mangabey, Lophocebus ugandae, and other members of the albigena-group (Lophocebus). Primate Conservation, 22(1), 123-128. · Maisels, F., Hart, J. & Laudisoit, A. 2020. Lophocebus aterrimus (amended version of 2019 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T12310A166607638. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T12310A166607638.en. Downloaded on 15 August 2020.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006692

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Semnocebus albigena johnstoni

(Lydekker, 1900)

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

johnstoni

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1895.4.28.1

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/1f972972-e17d-4e7e-9a7a-c7cd959a7bf5 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/e8abfe3e-283a-45fa-81de-64b4844d7e0a

Authority page

595

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3266803

Authority publication

Novitates Zoologicae

Cercocebus Jamrachi

(Pocock, 1906)

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

jamrachi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1939.3436

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/11166749-5142-4dfe-83d2-088353972828 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/12cfa0d8-5b3b-4adf-a4a9-c9cdd99d96f7 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/ade2b67a-a5ba-469b-84fa-420ae9e0cc62

Authority page

454

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51223125

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

Lophocebus albigena johnstoni

Groves, 2005

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

johnstoni

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

Lophocebus johnstoni

Mittermeier, Rylands, & D. E. Wilson, 2013

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

johnstoni

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

656

Authority publication

Barcelona

Name usages

  1. Mittermeier, Rylands & Wilson (2013:656) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59513)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #100000553) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #100000553) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006692) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)

Cercocebus (Leptocebus) albigena ituricus

(Matschie, 1913)

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

ituricus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

208

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11316570

Authority publication

Revue zoologique africaine

Name usages

Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

Cercocebus albigena mawambicus

(von Lorenz-Liburnau, 1917)

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

mawambicus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

233

Authority publication

Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien

Name usages

Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

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