Chlorocebus sabaeus (Linnaeus 1766)

[Simia] sabaea Linnaeus 1766, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., Vol. 1: 38.

Type Locality: Cape Verde Isls.

Vernacular Names: Green Monkey.

Synonyms: Chlorocebus callitrichus (I. Geoffroy 1851); Chlorocebus chrysurus (Blyth 1845); Chlorocebus werneri (I. Geoffroy 1850) .

Distribution: Senegal to the Volta River; introduced to Cape Verde Isls and to St. Kitts, Nevis, and Barbados (West Indies).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II.

Discussion: Separated from aethiops as a full species by Kingdon (1997) and Groves (2001 c). Napier (1981) regarded chrysurus (usually placed in synonymy of C. tantalus) as a synonym of sabaeus .