Lowe's mona monkey
| Lowe's mona monkey | |
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| Lowe's mona monkey in Mole Game Reserve, Ghana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Genus: | Cercopithecus |
| Species: | C. lowei
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| Binomial name | |
| Cercopithecus lowei Thomas, 1923
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Lowe's mona monkey (Cercopithecus lowei) is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae found from the Ivory Coast to Ghana. It was previously classified as a subspecies of Campbell's mona monkey C. campbelli. The species is named after the naturalist collector Willoughby Prescott Lowe.