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Manyara monkey

Adult male manyara monkey Cercopithecus mitis manyaraensis, Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania. Photograph by Yvonne de Jong and Tom Butynski.

Supporting material
Taxonomy and Biogeography of the Gentle Monkey Cercopithecus mitis Wolf, 1822 (Primates: Cercopithecidae) in Kenya and Tanzania, and Designation of a New Subspecies Endemic to Tanzania

By Thomas M. Butynski & Yvonne A. de Jong

Primate Conservation 34

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Below are the images from subadult and adult Cercopithecus mitis manyaraensis specimens present in museums examined by the authors.

Specimen details are found in table 2 Butynski & De Jong 2020.

Accession number Locality Age/sex Access
 
Natural History Museum, London
 
ZD.1937.11.8.1 North end L. Manyara Adult female
ZD.1951.371 Mto wa Mbu Adult female
ZD.1972.89 Mto wa Mbu Subadult female
ZD.1972.90 Mto wa Mbu Adult male
 
Powel-Cotton Museum, Kent
 
NH.TAN. 104 Mto wa Mbu Adult male
NH.TAN.112 Mto wa Mbu Juvenile female
 
American Museum of Natural History, New York
 
M-161108 40 km east of Ngorongoro Crater Adult male
M-161109 40 km east of Ngorongoro Crater Adult male
M-161111 Mto wa Mbu Adult male
M-161112 Mto wa Mbu Adult male
M-161113 Mto wa Mbu Subadult female
M-161114 Mto wa Mbu Adult female