Cercopithecus dryas Schwartz 1932

Cercopithecus dryas Schwartz 1932, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 21: 251.

Type Locality: Dem. Rep. Congo, Ikela Zone, Yapatsi. (See Thys van den Audenaerde, 1977:1006).

Vernacular Names: Dryas Monkey.

Synonyms: Cercopithecus salongo Thys van den Audenaerde 1977 .

Distribution: Known only from a few localities in C Dem. Rep. Congo (Wamba Dist., 22°31'- 33°E, and 0°01'N- 0°01'S); see Kuroda et al. (1985, as Cercopithecus salongo).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient.

Discussion: C. dryas species group. Not a subspecies of diana; possibly related to Chlorocebus aethiops; see Thys van den Audenaerde (1977:1007), Groves (2001 c:204). C. salongo is an age-variant of this species, see Colyn et al. (1991).