Chlorocebus aethiops (Linnaeus 1758)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Primates, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 111-184 : 158

Chlorocebus aethiops (Linnaeus 1758)

[Simia] aethiops Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 28 .

Type Locality: Sudan, Sennaar.

Vernacular Names: Grivet.

Synonyms: Chlorocebus calliaudi (Wettstein 1918) ; Chlorocebus cano-viridis ( Gray 1843) ; Chlorocebus cinereo-viridis ( Gray 1843) ; Chlorocebus engytithia (Hermann 1804) ; Chlorocebus griseo-viridis ( Desmarest 1820) ; Chlorocebus griseus (F. Cuvier 1819) ; Chlorocebus matschiei (Neumann 1902) ; Chlorocebus subviridis (F. Cuvier 1821) ; Chlorocebus toldti (Wettstein 1916) ; Chlorocebus weidholzi (Lorenz 1922) ; Chlorocebus zavattarii (de Beaux 1943) .

Distribution: Sudan east of the White Nile, Eritrea, Ethiopia east to the Rift Valley.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Cercopithecus aethiops .

Discussion: Does not include pygerythrus , sabaeus , djamdjamensis or tantalus ( Kingdon, 1997; Groves, 2001 c) or cynosuros ( Groves, 2001 c). According to Napier (1981), zavattarii is based on a hybrid with pygerythrus .