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By: Rosti, H., Pihlström, H., Bearder, S., Pellikka, P. & Rikkinen, J.
Date: 13.12.2020
Registered: Diversity 2020, 12, 473.
Open access article: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/12/12/473
https://doi.org/10.3390/d12120473
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The taxonomy of the Gentle Monkey Cercopithecus mitis has been debated for many decades, mainly due to the complex and wide distribution of its many subspecies. Tanzania and Kenya, together, support no fewer than eight of the currently recognized 17 subspecies. In the most recent issue of Primate Conservation (Issue 34, April 2020), Butynski and De Jong review the taxonomy and distribution of these eight subspecies and describe a new subspecies endemic to central north Tanzania, the Manyara Monkey Cercopithecus mitis manyaraensis. This new subspecies is named after Lake Manyara which lies near the centre of its geographic range.
The degree of threat status for each of Africa’s primate species and subspecies was assessed/reassessed in April 2016 in Rome during the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group’s ‘African Primate Red List Assessment Workshop’. In December 2019, the first 122 of these assessments were published (www.iucnredlist.org).
Continue Reading No Comments<p>Author(s): Kivai, S., Loyola, L., Wieczkowski, J. King, J., de Jong, Y., Allen, L., Ting, N. & Butynski, T.<br />
Date: 2019<br />
Registered: In: Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2018–2020. C. Schwitzer et al. IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group, International Primatological Society, Global Wildlife Conservation, and Bristol Zoological Society, Washington, DC. Pp. 43–45.<br />
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An unpublished analysis by the late Peter Grubb on the systematics of red colobus monkeys (subgenus Piliocolobus) is now available.
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