Sun-tailed monkey

Sun-tailed monkey[1]
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Family:	Cercopithecidae
Genus:	Cercopithecus
Species:	C. solatus
Binomial name
Cercopithecus solatus M. J. S. Harrison, 1988
Geographic range

The sun-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus solatus), also known as the sun-tailed guenon, is a primate that lives semi-terrestrially in one hilly area of moist evergreen forest in Gabon.

The sun-tailed monkey was only discovered in 1984, so not much is known about it. It is a frugivore. It weighs up to about 4 – 9 kg. Troops consist of one adult male and several females and young.

References

1. Groves, C.P. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 158. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
2. Oates, J. F. & Bearder, S. (2008). Cercopithecus solatus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 4 January 2009.

External links

• ARKive - images and movies of the sun-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus solatus)
• Animal Info 2004