Crested Mona Monkey

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Crested Mona Monkey[1]

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Cercopithecus
Species: C. pogonias
Binomial name
Cercopithecus pogonias
Bennett, 1833

The Crested Mona Monkey (Cercopithecus pogonias), also known as the Crowned Guenon, Crowned Monkey, Golden-bellied Guenon, or Golden-bellied Monkey, is a species of primate in the Cercopithecidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria.[2]

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  1. ^ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 158. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ a b Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group (2000). Cercopithecus pogonias. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.