Mangabey

Not to be confused with Mongabay.

Mangabeys are West African Old World monkeys, with species in three of the six genera of tribe Papionini.

Mangabeys
Young cherry-crowned mangabey
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Cercopithecidae
Subfamily:	Cercopithecinae
Tribe:	Papionini
Groups included
Lophocebus Rungwecebus Cercocebus
Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa
Macaca Papio Mandrillus

The more typical representatives of Cercocebus, also known as the white-eyelid mangabeys, are characterized by their bare, upper eyelids, which are lighter than their facial skin colouring, and the uniformly coloured hairs of their fur.^[1] Members of Lophocebus, the crested mangabeys, tend to have dark skin, eyelids that match their facial skin, and crests of hair on their heads.

A new species, the highland mangabey, was discovered in 2003 and was initially placed in Lophocebus.^[2] The genus Rungwecebus was later created for this species.^[3]

Lophocebus and Cercocebus were once thought to be very closely related, so much so that all the species were in one genus,^[4] but the species within genus Lophocebus are now thought to be more closely related to the baboons in genus Papio,^[4] while the species within genus Cercocebus are more closely related to the mandrill.^[5]

Genera

The three genera of mangabeys are:

• Lophocebus, the crested mangabeys
• Rungwecebus, the highland mangabey (kipunji)
• Cercocebus, the white-eyelid mangabeys

References

1.  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "mangabey". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
2. Jones, Trevor; Carolyn L. Ehardt; Thomas M. Butynski; Tim R. B. Davenport; Noah E. Mpunga; Sophy J. Machaga; Daniela W. De Luca (2005). "The Highland Mangabey Lophocebus kipunji: A New Species of African Monkey". Science. 308 (5725): 1161–1164. Bibcode:2005Sci...308.1161J. doi:10.1126/science.1109191. PMID 15905399. S2CID 46580799.
3. Davenport, Tim R. B.; William T. Stanley; Eric J. Sargis; Daniela W. De Luca; Noah E. Mpunga; Sophy J. Machaga; Link E. Olson (2006). "A New Genus of African Monkey, Rungwecebus: Morphology, Ecology, and Molecular Phylogenetics". Science. 312 (5778): 1378–81. Bibcode:2006Sci...312.1378D. doi:10.1126/science.1125631. PMID 16690815. S2CID 38690218.
4. Groves, C. P. (2005). "Genus Lophocebus". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
5. Groves, C. P. (2005). "Genus Cercocebus". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.