Family CERCOPITHECIDAE (OLD WORLD MONKEYS) • Medium-sized to large monkeys with long trunk,ischial callosities, narrow nasal opening and palate, daggerlike canines, molars with two ridges, and tail lacking or short in some, long in most; males usually larger than females. • 90-180 cm. • Palearctic, Afrotropical, and Indo-Malayan Regions . • ‘Tropical and subtropical forests, tropical and subtropical savanna woodland, temperate woodland, arid shrubland, and semi-desert from sea level to 4000 m. • 23 genera, 159 species, 269 taxa . • 18 species Critically Endangered, 40 species Endangered, 31 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600

Published as part of Russell A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands & Don E. Wilson, 2013, Cercopithecidae, pp. 550-755 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 3 Primates, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 550, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6867065