Chlorocebus aethiops (Linnaeus 1758)

[Simia] aethiops Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 28.

Type Locality: Sudan, Sennaar.

Vernacular Names: Grivet.

Synonyms: Chlorocebus calliaudi (Wettstein 1918); Chlorocebus cano-viridis (Gray 1843); Chlorocebus cinereo-viridis (Gray 1843); Chlorocebus engytithia (Hermann 1804); Chlorocebus griseo-viridis (Desmarest 1820); Chlorocebus griseus (F. Cuvier 1819); Chlorocebus matschiei (Neumann 1902); Chlorocebus subviridis (F. Cuvier 1821); Chlorocebus toldti (Wettstein 1916); Chlorocebus weidholzi (Lorenz 1922); Chlorocebus zavattarii (de Beaux 1943) .

Distribution: Sudan east of the White Nile, Eritrea, Ethiopia east to the Rift Valley.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Cercopithecus aethiops .

Discussion: Does not include pygerythrus, sabaeus, djamdjamensis or tantalus (Kingdon, 1997; Groves, 2001 c) or cynosuros (Groves, 2001 c). According to Napier (1981), zavattarii is based on a hybrid with pygerythrus .