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Chlorocebus aethiops (vervet monkey)
Taxonomy
Simia aethiops was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was recombined as Simia (Cercopithecus) aethiops by Kerr (1792); it was recombined as Cercopithecus aethiops by Thomas (1911), Dandelot and Prévost (1972) and Butynski (2002); it was recombined as Chlorocebus aethiops by Tosi et al. (2004).
It was recombined as Simia (Cercopithecus) aethiops by Kerr (1792); it was recombined as Cercopithecus aethiops by Thomas (1911), Dandelot and Prévost (1972) and Butynski (2002); it was recombined as Chlorocebus aethiops by Tosi et al. (2004).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Simia aethiops Linnaeus p. 28 |
| 1792 | Simia (Cercopithecus) aethiops Kerr |
| 1911 | Cercopithecus aethiops Thomas p. 128 |
| 1972 | Cercopithecus aethiops Dandelot and Prévost p. 614 |
| 2002 | Cercopithecus aethiops Butynski |
| 2004 | Chlorocebus aethiops Tosi et al. |
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Chlorocebus aethiops Linnaeus 1758 [vervet monkey]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 2.58800 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Piacenzian - Calabrian | Kenya | Cercopithecus aethiops (21490) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa | Cercopithecus aethiops (21949) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Ethiopia | Cercopithecus aethiops (22129 22156) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya | Cercopithecus aethiops (22276) | |
| Holocene | Zambia | Cercopithecus aethiops (21894 21895) | |
| Holocene | Cote D'Ivoire | Cercopithecus aethiops (21692) | |
| Holocene | Swaziland | Cercopithecus aethiops (21927 21955) | |
| Holocene | Sudan | Cercopithecus aethiops (208787) | |
| Holocene | Tanzania | Cercopithecus aethiops (21690) |