Cercopithecini
{{Short description|Tribe of Old World monkeys}}
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| image = Chlorocebus pygerythrus.jpg
| image_caption = Vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus)
| taxon = Cercopithecini
| authority = Gray, 1821
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = See text
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Cercopithecini is a tribe of Old World monkey that includes several monkey species, including the vervet monkeys, talapoins, Allen's swamp monkeys and the guenons, all in Africa.{{cite book |last1=Zinner |first1=D. |last2=Finkensher |first2=G. H. |last3=Roos |first3=C. |chapter=Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys |editor1-last=Mittermeier |editor1-first=Russell A. |editor1-link=Russell A. Mittermeier |editor2-first=Anthony B. |editor2-last=Rylands |editor3-first=Don E. |editor3-last=Wilson |editor3-link=Don E. Wilson |title=Handbook of the mammals of the world. Volume 3. Primates |publisher=Lynx Edicions |location=Barcelona |year=2013 |pages=238–639 |isbn=978-84-96553-89-7}}
Classification
- Family Cercopithecidae
- Subfamily Cercopithecinae
- Tribe Cercopithecini
- Genus Allenopithecus - Allen's swamp monkey
- Genus Miopithecus - talapoins
- Genus Erythrocebus – patas monkeys
- Genus Chlorocebus – vervet monkeys, etc.
- Genus Allochrocebus – terrestrial guenons
- Genus Cercopithecus – guenons
- Tribe Papionini
References
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Category:Taxa described in 1821
Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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