| Lowe's mona monkey1 | |
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| Lowe's mona monkey in Mole Game Reserve, Ghana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Genus: | Cercopithecus |
| Species: | C. lowei
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| Binomial name | |
| Cercopithecus lowei Thomas, 1923
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Lowe's mona monkey (Cercopithecus lowei) is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae found from the Ivory Coast to Ghana.1 It was previously classified as a subspecies of Campbell's mona monkey C. campbelli.1 The species is named after the naturalist collector Willoughby Prescott Lowe.
Predation
Predators of Lowe’s mona monkeys in Ivory Coast include Egyptian cobras.3
References
References
- Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- Wiafe, E.; Oates, J.F.; Gonedelé Bi, S.; Koné, I.; Matsuda Goodwin, R.; Osei, D. (2019). "Cercopithecus lowei". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T136931A92373680. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T136931A92373680.en.
- D. L. Hart (May 2000). Primates as prey: ecological, morphological and behavioral relationships between primate species and their predators. Washington University Department of Anthropology.