Chlorocebus sabaeus (Linnaeus 1766)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Primates, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 111-184 : 159

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scientific name	Chlorocebus sabaeus (Linnaeus 1766)
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[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 .