Sclater's Guenon

Taxobox
name = Sclater's GuenonMSW3 Groves|pages=158]
status = VU
trend = down
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006|assessors=Butynski "et al"|year=2000|id=4229|title=Cercopithecus sclateri|downloaded=11 May 2006 Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is endangered and the criteria used]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cercopithecidae
genus = "Cercopithecus"
species = "C. sclateri"
binomial = "Cercopithecus sclateri"
binomial_authority = Pocock, 1904

Sclater's Guenon ("Cercopithecus sclateri"), also known as Sclater's Monkey and the Nigerian Monkey, is an Old World monkey that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1904 and named after Philip Sclater. It is an arboreal and diurnal primate that lives in the forests of southern Nigeria. It should not be confused with the closely related species, the White-throated Guenon ("Cercopithecus erythrogaster"), which occurs in Nigeria and Benin. Sclater's Guenon was formerly classified as a subspecies of the Red-eared Guenon ("C. erythrotis").

The diet of Sclater's Guenon is unknown. The species is likely primarily a frugivore that supplements its diet with other plant parts and insects, based on data from closely related species.cite web | author = Massicot, P. | title = Animal Info - Sclater's Monkey | date = 2005-10-21 | url = http://www.animalinfo.org/species/primate/cercscla.htm | accessdate = 2004-11-02]

Sclater's Guenon was thought to be nearly extinct until the late 1980s. The species is now known to occur in several populations between the Niger and Cross Rivers in southern Nigeria. This region falls in the Guinean Forests of the West Africa biodiversity hotspot.

Three populations of Sclater's Guenon are protected by local people who consider the monkeys to have sacred status. Mostly because of habitat fragmentation and loss and thus increasing population isolation, Sclater's Guenon is listed as an endangered species. It also does not occur in any formally protected area.

Sclater's Guenon is known to occur in captivity only at the [http://www.cercopan.org Centre for Education, Rehabilitation, and Conservation of Primates and Nature (CERCOPAN)] in Cross River State, Nigeria.

References

External links

*http://www.cercopan.org/Primates/Guenons/sclaters.htm