Cercopithecus mitis

– Lower Risk Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

PRIMATES

Family:

CERCOPITHECIDAE

Scientific Name:

Cercopithecus mitis

Species Authority:

Wolf, 1822

Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:

See Cercopithecus mitis ssp. albogularis

See Cercopithecus mitis ssp. labiatus

See Cercopithecus mitis ssp. stuhlmanni

See Cercopithecus mitis ssp. kandti

See Cercopithecus mitis ssp. albotorquatus

Common Name/s:

English	—	BLUE MONKEY, DIADEMED MONKEY, GOLDEN MONKEY, SAMANGO, SYKES' MONKEY
French	—	CERCOPITHÈQUE À DIADÈME

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

LR/lc ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

2000

Assessor/s:

Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group

Evaluator/s:

Mittermeier, R.A., Konstant, W.R. & Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority)

History:

1988	-	Not Threatened (Lee et al. 1988)
1996	-	Lower Risk/least concern (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Angola; Burundi; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Ethiopia; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Rwanda; Somalia; South Africa; Sudan; Swaziland; Tanzania, United Republic of; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Lee, P.C., Thornback, J. and Bennett, E.L. 1988. Threatened Primates of Africa. The IUCN Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Citation:	Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group 2000. Cercopithecus mitis. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 August 2008.
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