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

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• ‘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

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• 18 species Critically Endangered, 40 species Endangered, 31 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600