Cercopithecus albogularis

(Sykes, 1831)

Sykes' Monkey

Figure 1. Photograph by T. Davenport.

Type Description:

Proc. Committee Sci. Correspondance Zool. Soc. Lond., 1:106

Type Locality:

Angola.

Measurements:

Total length: 1070-1520 mm

Head and body: 440-670 mm

Tail length: 630-850 mm

Weight: 6-12 kg

Distribution:

Cercopithecus albogularis is distributed throughout the riverine basin of the Indian Ocean from sea-level up to 3,300 m from the Eastern Rift Wall to the east coastline from Somalia down to the Cape Province in South Africa and also in the upper reaches of the Congo Basin. This species is found in a variety of evergreen forest types including riverine, delta, gallery, secondary, primary, montane, and bamboo. (Kingdon, 1984, 1997)

Figure 2.

Key Reference:

1. Kingdon, J. 1984. East African mammals: An atlas of evolution in Africa. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1:234-247.
2. Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals, AP Natural World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, p. 78-82.
3. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1:569, 573-575.
4. Swynnerton, G. H., and R. W. Hayman. 1951. A checklist of the land mammals of the Tanganyika Territory and the Zanzibar Protectorate. Journal of the East African Natural History Society, 20(6):274-392.