Cercopithecus mitis

Wolf, 1822

Blue Monkey

Figure 1. Photograph by B. Stanley.

Figure 2. FMNH 127793. Photograph by R. Banasiak.

Type Description:

Abbild. Beschreib. Merkw. Naturgesch. Gegenstandes, 2:145

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 mitis is widely distributed yet separated throughout central Africa, from east Congo to Ethiopia and East Africa to the Great Rift Valley and a small area along the riverine valley in northern Angola where it is found from sea-level up to 3,300 m in a variety of evergreen forest types including riverine, delta, gallery, secondary, primary, montane, and bamboo. (Kingdon, 1984, 1997)

Figure 3.

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.