Dent's mona monkey

Dent's mona monkey[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Cercopithecus
Species: C. denti
Binomial name
Cercopithecus denti
Thomas, 1907
Synonyms
  • liebrechtsi Dubois and Matschie, 1912

Dent's mona monkey (Cercopithecus denti) is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Congo, Rwanda, western Uganda, and the Central African Republic.[1] It was previously classified as a subspecies of Wolf's mona monkey C. wolf.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 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. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
  2. Oates, J. F.; Hart, J. & Groves, C. P. (2008). "Cercopithecus pogonias ssp. denti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 4 January 2009.


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