Chlorocebus aethiops (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:28. TYPE LOCALITY: Sudan, Sennaar. DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Ethiopia, south to South Africa; Zanzibar, Pemba, and Mafia (Tanzania); introduced into Lesser Antilles (Caribbean). STATUS: CITES - Appendix II. SYNONYMS: alexandri, arenarius, beniana, budgetti, calliaudi, callidus, callitrichus, cano-viridis, centralis, chrysurus, cinereo-viridis, circumcinctus, cloetei, contigua, cynosuros, djamdjamensis, ellenbecki, excubutor, flavidus, graueri, griseistictus, griseoviridis, helvescens, hilgerti, itimbiriensis, johnstoni, katangensis, lalandii, lukonzolwae, luteus, marjoriae, marrensis, matschiei, nesiotes, ngamiensis, nifoviridis, passargei, pembae, pousarguei, pusillus, pygerythrus, rubellus, rufoniger, rufoviridis, sabaeus, silaceus, tantalus, tephrops, tholloni, toldti, tumbili, viridis, voeltzkowi, weidholzi, werneri, weynsi, whytei. COMMENTS: Includes pygerythrus, sabaeus, and tantalus; see Struhsaker (1970:376).

Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Primates, pp. 243-277 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 265, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353122