Biology:Silver monkey
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Short description: Subspecies of Old World monkey
| Silver monkey[1] | |
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| Silver monkey perched in a tree | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Genus: | Cercopithecus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | C. m. doggetti
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| Trinomial name | |
| Cercopithecus mitis doggetti Pocock, 1907
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| Synonyms | |
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sibatoi (Lorenz, 1913) | |
The silver monkey (Cercopithecus mitis doggetti) is a subspecies of the blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis).[2] It is an Old World monkey found primarily in East Africa. Its range includes Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1] It was previously listed as a full species.[1] The subspecies name commemorates the naturalist and collector Walter Grimwood Doggett.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. 155. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100461.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Butynski, T.M.; De Jong, Y.A. (2022). "Cercopithecus mitis ssp. doggetti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.
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