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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER PRIMATES
--> SUBORDER HAPLORRHINI
--> INFRAORDER SIMIIFORMES
--> SUPERFAMILY Cercopithecoidea
--> FAMILY Cercopithecidae
--> SUBFAMILY Cercopithecinae
--> GENUS Chlorocebus
SPECIES Chlorocebus sabaeus
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1766. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1: 38. | | Common Name: | Green Monkey | | Type Locality: | Cape Verde Isls. | | Distribution: | Senegal to the Volta River; introduced to Cape Verde Isls and to St. Kitts, Nevis, and Barbados (West Indies). | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II. | | Comments: | Separated from aethiops as a full species by Kingdon (1997) and Groves (2001c). Napier (1981) regarded chrysurus (usually placed in synonymy of C. tantalus) as a synonym of sabaeus. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
callitrichus (I. Geoffroy, 1851)
chrysurus (Blyth, 1845)
werneri (I. Geoffroy, 1850)
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