Lowe's mona monkey

Lowe's mona monkey [1]
Lowe's mona monkey in Mole Game Reserve, Ghana
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1) [2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Cercopithecidae
Genus:	Cercopithecus
Species:	C. lowei
Binomial name
Cercopithecus lowei Thomas, 1923

Lowe's mona monkey (Cercopithecus lowei) is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae found from the Ivory Coast to Ghana. ^[1] It was previously classified as a subspecies of Campbell's mona monkey C. campbelli. ^[1] The species is named after the naturalist collector Willoughby Prescott Lowe.

References

1. 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. ISBN   0-801-88221-4. OCLC   62265494.
2. Wiafe, E.; Oates, J.F.; Gonedelé Bi, S.; Koné, I.; Matsuda Goodwin, R.; Osei, D. (2019). "Cercopithecus lowei". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T136931A92373680. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T136931A92373680.en .