White-eyelid mangabey

White-eyelid mangabeys
Sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Cercopithecidae
Subfamily:	Cercopithecinae
Tribe:	Papionini
Genus:	Cercocebus É. Geoffroy, 1812[1]
Type species
Cercocebus fuliginosus É. Geoffroy, 1812 (= Simia (Cercopithecus) aethiops torquatus, Kerr, 1792)[1]
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Aethiops Martin, 1841 Leptocebus Trouessart, 1904

The white-eyelid mangabeys are African Old World monkeys belonging to the genus Cercocebus. They are characterized by their bare upper eyelids, which are lighter than their facial skin colouring, and the uniformly coloured hairs of the fur.^[2] The other two genera of mangabeys, Lophocebus and Rungwecebus, were once thought to be very closely related to Cercocebus, so much so that all the species were placed in one genus, but Lophocebus and Rungwecebus species are now understood to be more closely related to the baboons in genus Papio, while the Cercocebus species are more closely related to the mandrill.

Species

Genus Cercocebus – Geoffroy, 1812 – seven species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Agile mangabey	C. agilis A. Milne-Edwards, 1886	Central Africa	Size: 44–65 cm (17–26 in) long, plus 45–79 cm (18–31 in) tail[3] Habitat: Forest[4] Diet: Fruit, seeds and shoots, as well as small vertebrates[4]	LC  Unknown [4]
Collared mangabey	C. torquatus (Kerr, 1792)	Western Africa	Size: 45–67 cm (18–26 in) long, plus 60–75 cm (24–30 in) tail[5] Habitat: Forest[6] Diet: Fruit and nuts, as well as stems and roots[5]	EN  Unknown [6]
Golden-bellied mangabey	C. chrysogaster Lydekker, 1900	Central Africa	Size: 40–80 cm (16–31 in) long, plus 45–100 cm (18–39 in) tail[7] Habitat: Forest[8] Diet: Invertebrates, fruit, seeds, and nectar[7]	EN  Unknown [8]
Sanje mangabey	C. sanjei Mittermeier, 1986	East-central Africa	Size: 50–65 cm (20–26 in) long, plus 55–65 cm (22–26 in) tail[9] Habitat: Forest[10] Diet: Fruit, nuts, and seeds, as well as fungi, invertebrates, and plants[10]	EN  Unknown [10]
Sooty mangabey	C. atys (Audebert, 1797)	Western Africa	Size: 40–68 cm (16–27 in) long, plus 40–80 cm (16–31 in) tail[11] Habitat: Forest and savanna[12] Diet: Fruit and nuts, as well as swamp plants, grass, seeds, fungi, and invertebrates[11]	VU  Unknown [12]
Tana River mangabey	C. galeritus Peters, 1879	Eastern Africa	Size: 44–63 cm (17–25 in) long, plus 50–68 cm (20–27 in) tail[13] Habitat: Forest, shrubland, and inland wetlands[14] Diet: Fruit and seeds, as well as stems, leaves, insects, and fungi[13]	CR  100–1,000 [14]
White-naped mangabey	C. lunulatus (Temminck, 1853)	Western Africa	Size: 52–73 cm (20–29 in) long, plus 68–74 cm (27–29 in) tail[5] Habitat: Forest and inland wetlands[15] Diet: Fruit, leaves, seeds, buds, and grass[16]	EN  Unknown [15]

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