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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Chlorocebus
- Image
- Gambia06Bijilo0015 (5421078756).jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Chlorocebus sabaeus
- taxon name
- Chlorocebus sabaeus
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- Chlorocebus sabaeus
- taxon common name
- Westliche Grünmeerkatze
- sequenced genome URL
- www.ensembl.org/Chlorocebus_sabaeus
- short name
- C. sabaeus
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
The green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus), also known as the sabaeus monkey, is an Old World monkey with golden-green fur and pale hands and feet. The tip of the tail is golden yellow as are the backs of the thighs and cheek whiskers. It does not have a distinguishing band of fur on the brow, like other Chlorocebus species, and males have a pale blue scrotum. Some authorities consider this and all of the members of the genus Chlorocebus to be a single widespread species, C. aethiops.
Physical description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Green Monkey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.