Green Monkey

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Green Monkey[1]

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Chlorocebus
Species: C. sabaeus
Binomial name
Chlorocebus sabaeus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Green Monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus) is an Old World monkey with golden-green fur and pale hands and feet. The tip of the tail is golden yellow as are the backs of the thighs and cheek whiskers. They do not have a distinguishing band of fur on the brow, like other Chlorocebus species, and males have a pale blue scrotum. Some authorities consider this and all of the members of the genus Chlorocebus to be a single species, Cercopithecus aethiops.

[edit] Range

In addition to being found in sub-Saharan Africa and from Senegal and Ethiopia down to South Africa, green monkeys are also found on the Cape Verde islands off the horn of Africa in the Atlantic Ocean and on the Caribbean islands of Saint Kitts, Nevis, and Barbados. The monkey was introduced to the West Indies in the late 1600s when slave trade ships travelled to the Caribbean from West Africa.

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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, 158-159. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group (2000). Cercopithecus aethiops. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.
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