Cercopithecus petaurista

– Lower Risk Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

PRIMATES

Family:

CERCOPITHECIDAE

Scientific Name:

Cercopithecus petaurista

Species Authority:

(Schreber, 1774)

Common Name/s:

English	—	LESSER SPOT-NOSED GUENON, LESSER SPOT-NOSED MONKEY, LESSER WHITE-NOSED GUENON, LESSER WHITE-NOSED MONKEY
French	—	HOCHEUR DU GHANA

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)

Countries:

Native:

Benin; Côte d'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Sierra Leone; Togo

Uncertain presence and origin:

Gambia; Guinea-Bissau; Senegal

System:

Terrestrial

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 petaurista. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 August 2008.
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