Bale Mountains Vervet

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Bale Mountains Vervet[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Chlorocebus
Species: C. djamdjamensis
Binomial name
Chlorocebus djamdjamensis
Neumann, 1902

The Bale Mountains Vervet (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) is a terrestrial Old World monkey endemic to Ethiopia.[1][2] It was originally described as a subspecies of the Grivet (Chlorocebus aethiops).[1] All species in Chlorocebus we formerly in the genus Cercopithecus.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d 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, 159. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ a b Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group (2000). Cercopithecus aethiops ssp. djamdjamensis. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2007. Retrieved on 2008-04-19.