Lesser Spot-nosed Monkey

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Lesser Spot-nosed Monkey[1]

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Cercopithecus
Species: C. petaurista
Binomial name
Cercopithecus petaurista
(Schreber, 1774)

The Lesser Spot-nosed Guenon, Lesser Spot-nosed Monkey, Lesser White-nosed Guenon, or Lesser White-nosed Monkey (Cercopithecus petaurista) is a species of primate in the Cercopithecidae family. It is found in Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Togo, possibly Gambia, possibly Guinea-Bissau, and possibly Senegal.[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, 157. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ a b Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group (2000). Cercopithecus petaurista. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
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