Sykes' monkey
| Sykes' monkey | |
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| Kinondo, Gazi, Kenya | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Genus: | Cercopithecus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | C. m. albogularis
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| Trinomial name | |
| Cercopithecus mitis albogularis (Sykes, 1831)
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| Sykes' monkey geographical range | |
Sykes' monkey (Cercopithecus mitis albogularis) is a subspecies of the blue monkey. As it used to be considered a species of its own with a dozen subspecies, it has several alternative common names. It is an Old World monkey found within Kenya and Tanzania. It is named after English naturalist Colonel William Henry Sykes (1790-1872), and has a large white patch on the throat and upper chest, and a grizzled (not blackish) cap. The species was described on the basis of a specimen in captivity that had been brought to Bombay aboard a ship.