Sykes' monkey

{{Short description|Subspecies of Old World monkey}}

{{Distinguish|White-throated guenon}}

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| name = Sykes' monkey{{MSW3 Groves | pages = 154|id=12100435}}

| image = Samango monkey (Cercopithecus mitis erythrarchus) Mount Sheba.jpg

| image caption = Cercopithecus mitis erythrarchus, Mount Sheba, South Africa

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Butynski, T.M. |author2=De Jong, Y.A. |year=2022 |amends=2019 |title=Cercopithecus mitis ssp. albogularis |volume=2022 |page=e.T40645A210337748 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T40645A210337748.en |access-date=16 August 2023}}

| genus = Cercopithecus

| species = mitis

| subspecies = albogularis

| authority = (Sykes, 1831)

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Sykes' monkey (Cercopithecus mitis albogularis), also known as the white-throated monkey or Samango monkey, is a subspecies of the blue monkey. It is an Old World monkey found between Ethiopia and South Africa, including south and east Democratic Republic of Congo. It is named after English naturalist Colonel William Henry Sykes (1790-1872), and has a large white patch on the throat and upper chest, and a grizzled (not blackish) cap.Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon Guide to African Mammals. Academic Press Limited, London. {{ISBN|0-12-408355-2}}