Lesser spot-nosed monkey

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)
Geographic range

The lesser spot-nosed monkey, lesser spot-nosed guenon, 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]

References

  1. ^ Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 157. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100487. 
  2. ^ a b Oates, J. F., Gippoliti, S. & Groves, C. P. (2008). Cercopithecus petaurista. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 January 2009.