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Silver monkey

The silver monkey is a subspecies of the blue monkey. It is an Old World monkey found primarily in East Africa. Its range includes Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was previously listed as a full species. The subspecies name commemorates the naturalist and collector Walter Grimwood Doggett.

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Silver monkey1
Silver monkey perched in a tree
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: Primates
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Cercopithecus
Species:
C. mitis
Subspecies:
C. m. doggetti
Trinomial name
Cercopithecus mitis doggetti
Pocock, 1907
Synonyms

sibatoi (Lorenz, 1913)

The silver monkey (Cercopithecus mitis doggetti) is a subspecies of the blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis).2 It is an Old World monkey found primarily in East Africa. Its range includes Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.1 It was previously listed as a full species.1 The subspecies name commemorates the naturalist and collector Walter Grimwood Doggett.

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References

  1. 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. p. 155. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
  2. Butynski, T.M.; De Jong, Y.A. (2022) [errata version of 2022 assessment]. "Cercopithecus mitis ssp. doggetti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022 e.T136861A210363846. Retrieved 16 August 2023.