Mandrillus Ritgen 1824

Mandrillus Ritgen 1824, Natureichen Eintheilung der Saugethiere: 33.

Type Species: Simia maimon Linnaeus 1766

Synonyms: Chaeropithecus Gray 1870; Drill Reichenbach 1862; Maimon Trouessart 1904; Mandril Voigt 1831; Mormon Wagner 1839 .

Species and subspecies: 2 species with 2 subspecies:

Species Mandrillus leucophaeus (F. Cuvier 1807)

Subspecies Mandrillus leucophaeus subsp. leucophaeus F. Cuvier 1807

Subspecies Mandrillus leucophaeus subsp. poensis Zukowsky 1922

Species Mandrillus sphinx (Linnaeus 1758)

Discussion: Not a synonym of Papio (see Groves, 1989), pace McKenna and Bell (1997). Delson and Napier (1976:46) considered these two species in genus Papio, subgenus Papio; placed in subgenus Mandrillus by Dandelot (1974:9). Mandrillus considered a full genus by Groves (1989, 2001 c); placed as a subgenus of Cercocebus by Goodman et al. (1998).