Chlorocebus Gray 1870 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

Parent taxon: Cercopithecini according to J. Xing et al. 2005

See also Tosi et al. 2004 and Wilson and Reeder 2005

Sister taxa: Allenopithecus, Allochrocebus, Cercopithecus, Erythrocebus, Miopithecus, Nanopithecus

Subtaxa: Chlorocebus aethiops Chlorocebus cynosuros Chlorocebus djamdjamensis Chlorocebus pygerythrus Chlorocebus sabaeus Chlorocebus tantalus

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Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Cote D'Ivoire (1 collection), Ethiopia (2), Kenya (1), South Africa (1), Sudan (1), Swaziland (2), Tanzania (1), Zambia (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1)

Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence

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