Red-tailed Monkey

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Red-tailed Monkey[1]

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Cercopithecus
Species: C. ascanius
Binomial name
Cercopithecus ascanius
(Audebert, 1799)

The Black-cheeked White-nosed Monkey, Red-tailed Guenon, Red-tailed Monkey, Redtail Monkey, or Schmidt's Guenon (Cercopithecus ascanius) is a species of primate in the Cercopithecidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and possibly Burundi.[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, 154-155. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ a b Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group (2000). Cercopithecus ascanius. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.