Mangabey
| Mangabeys | |
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| Young cherry-crowned mangabey
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Subfamily: | Cercopithecinae |
| Tribe: | Papionini |
| Groups included | |
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| Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa | |
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Mangabeys are West African Old World monkeys, with species in three of the six genera of tribe Papionini.
The more typical representatives of Lophocebus, the crested mangabeys, tend to have dark skin, eyelids that match their facial skin, and crests of hair on their heads.
A new species, the
Rungwecebus was later created for this species.[3]
Lophocebus and Cercocebus were once thought to be very closely related, so much so that all the species were in one genus,
Genera
The three genera of mangabeys are:
- Lophocebus, the crested mangabeys
- Rungwecebus, the highland mangabey (kipunji)
- Cercocebus, the white-eyelid mangabeys
References
Look up mangabey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "mangabey". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- S2CID 46580799.
- S2CID 38690218.
- ^ OCLC 62265494.
- OCLC 62265494.
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