Papio sphinx (Linnaeus, 1758)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Primates, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 216-243 : 238

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scientific name	Papio sphinx (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Papio sphinx (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed „ 1:25.

TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroun, Ja River, Bitye .

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroun, south of the Sanaga River; Rio Muni ( Equatorial Guinea); Gabon; Congo Republic.

COMMENT: Delson and Napier, 1976, Bull. Zool. Nomenci., 33:46, considered sphinx the type of subgenus Papio . Placed in subgenus Mandrillus by Dandelot, 1974, Part 3:9. See Grubb, 1973, Folia Primatol., 20:161- 177, for details of distribution.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as P. (= Mandrillus ) sphinx and U.S. ESA - Endangered as P. sphinx .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301406008004004001.

References

Dandelot, P. 1974. Order Primates. Part 3. Pp. 1 - 45, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.

Delson, E., and P. H. Napier. 1976. Request for determination of the generic names of the baboon and the mandrill (Mammalia: Primates, Cercopithecidae) Z. N. (S.) 2093. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 33 (1): 46 - 60.

Grubb, P. 1973. Distribution, divergence and speciation of the drill and mandrill. Folia Primatologica, 20 (2 - 3): 161 - 177.