Mammal Species of the World Logo

 

HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA  --> ORDER PRIMATES  --> SUBORDER HAPLORRHINI  --> INFRAORDER SIMIIFORMES  --> SUPERFAMILY Cercopithecoidea  --> FAMILY Cercopithecidae  --> SUBFAMILY Cercopithecinae  --> GENUS Cercocebus

SPECIES Cercocebus atys

Author:Audebert, 1797.
Citation:Hist. Nat. Singes Makis, 4(2): 13.
Common Name:Sooty Mangabey
Type Locality:West Africa.
Distribution:Senegal to Ghana.
Status:CITES – Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Endangered as included in C. torquatus; IUCN – Critically Endangered as C. a. lunulatus, otherwise Lower Risk (nt).
Comments:The subspecies lunulatus appears strongly distinct, and may be a separate species (Groves, 2001c:242-3). Separated from torquatus by Groves (2001c:242).
EXPORT AS CSV

Offspring:

SUBSPECIES atys

SUBSPECIES lunulatus

Synonyms:


  Bucknell Home Page   Biology Department Home Page

 

©Bucknell Univesity All Rights Reserved
Comments and questions to dreeder@bucknell.edu