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GENUS Mandrillus

Author:Ritgen, 1824.
Citation:Natureichen Eintheilung der Säugethiere: 33.
Type Species:Simia maimon Linnaeus, 1766; Simia mormon Alstromer, 1766 (= Simia sphinx Linnaeus, 1758).
Comments:Not a synonym of Papio (see Groves, 1989), pace McKenna and Bell (1997). Delson and Napier (1976:46) considered these two species in genus Papio, subgenus Papio; placed in subgenus Mandrillus by Dandelot (1974:9). Mandrillus considered a full genus by Groves (1989, 2001c); placed as a subgenus of Cercocebus by Goodman et al. (1998).
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Offspring:

SPECIES leucophaeus

SUBSPECIES leucophaeus

SUBSPECIES poensis

SPECIES sphinx

Synonyms:

    Chaeropithecus Gray, 1870
    Drill Reichenbach, 1862
    Maimon Trouessart, 1904
    Mandril Voigt, 1831
    Mormon Wagner, 1839
    Papio P.L.S. Müller, 1773

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