Chlorocebus sabaeus

52. Green Monkey Chlorocebus sabaeus French: Vervet vert / German: Westliche Griinmeerkatze / Spanish: Vervet verde Other common names: Callithrix Monkey, Grass Monkey, Mangrove Monkey Taxonomy. Simia sabaea Linneaus, 1766, “Cape Verde Islands,” probably Senegal. There may be some limited interbreeding of C. sabaeus with C. tantalus in Ghana. This species was long considered part of the genus Cercopithecus and often treated as a subspecies of C. aethiops. Monotypic. Distribution. From Senegal and Guinea-Bissau (including the Bijagos Archipelago), E to just W of the Volta River system in Ghana;... Mehr ...