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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER PRIMATES
--> SUBORDER HAPLORRHINI
--> INFRAORDER SIMIIFORMES
--> SUPERFAMILY Cercopithecoidea
--> FAMILY Cercopithecidae
--> SUBFAMILY Cercopithecinae
--> GENUS Cercopithecus
SPECIES Cercopithecus nictitans
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1766. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1: 40. | | Common Name: | Greater spot-nosed Monkey | | Type Locality: | Equatorial Guinea, Benito River. | | Distribution: | Liberia; Côte d’Ivoire; Nigeria apparently to Itimbiri River in NW Dem. Rep. Congo, Central African Republic; Rio Muni and Bioko (Equatorial Guinea). | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Critically Endangered as C. n. stampflii, Endangered as C. n. martini, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | C. mitis species group. C. signatus Jentink, 1886, probably represents a hybrid between this species and one of the cephus group (Oates, 1985). |
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