Sykes' monkey

Not to be confused with White-throated guenon.

Sykes' monkey [1]
Cercopithecus mitis erythrarchus, Mount Sheba, South Africa
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Cercopithecidae
Genus:	Cercopithecus
Species:	C. mitis
Subspecies:	C. m. albogularis
Trinomial name
Cercopithecus mitis albogularis (Sykes, 1831)

Sykes' monkey (Cercopithecus mitis albogularis), also known as the white-throated monkey or Samango monkey, is a subspecies of the blue monkey. ^[2] It is an Old World monkey found between Ethiopia and South Africa, including south and east Democratic Republic of Congo. It is named after English naturalist Colonel William Henry Sykes (1790-1872), and has a large white patch on the throat and upper chest, and a grizzled (not blackish) cap. The species was described on the basis of a specimen in captivity that had been brought to Bombay aboard a ship. ^{[3] [4]}

Subspecies

Sykes' monkey was previous considered a species on its own. ^[1] When it was, it had 12 subspecies: ^[1]

• C. a. albogularis – Zanzibar Sykes' monkey
• C. a. albotorquatus – Pousargues' Sykes' monkey
• C. a. erythrarchus – white-throated guenon or Samango monkey
• C. a. francescae
• C. a. kibonotensis
• C. a. kolbi – Mount Kenya Sykes' monkey
• C. a. labiatus – White-lipped monkey or Samango monkey
• C. a. moloneyi
• C. a. monoides
• C. a. phylax
• C. a. schwarzi
• C. a. zammaranoi – Zammarano's white-throated guenon

References

Sykes' Monkey from Mount Kenya

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. p. 154. ISBN   0-801-88221-4. OCLC   62265494.
2. Butynski, T.M.; De Jong, Y.A. (2022) [amended version of 2019 assessment]. "Cercopithecus mitis ssp. albogularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2022 e.T40645A210337748. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T40645A210337748.en . Retrieved 16 August 2023.
3. "[Descriptions of animals exhibited]". Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London. 1: 106. 1831.
4. Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon Guide to African Mammals. Academic Press Limited, London. ISBN   0-12-408355-2