Chlorocebus pygerythrus

(F. Cuvier, 1821)

Vervet Monkey

Figure 1. Photograph by B. Stanley.

Figure 2. FMNH 127792. Photograph by R. Banasiak.

Type Description:

Hist. Nat. Mamm., 24:2

Type Locality:

Africa.

Measurements:

Head and body: 380-620 mm

Tail length: 420-720 mm

Weight: 5-9 kg

Distribution:

Found in a wide variety of vegetation types including woodlands, savannas, riverine, galleries and lake-shore forests, Chlorocebus pygerythrus, is distributed over half the African continent straddling the equator from Ethiopia and Somalia down to South Africa and west to Angola to Gabon reaching altitudes up to 3,000 m. (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, 1:212-219.
2. Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals, AP Natural World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, p. 59-62.
3. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1:569, 571-573.
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.