Angolan Talapoin
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Angolan Talapoin[1]

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Miopithecus
Species: M. talapoin
Binomial name
Miopithecus talapoin
(Schreber, 1774)

The Angolan Talapoin (Miopithecus talapoin), also known as the Southern Talapoin, is a species of primate in the Cercopithecidae family. It is found in riparian habitats in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] Unlike the related Gabon Talapoin, the Angolan Talapoin has blackish (not flesh-coloured) ears and facial skin down to around the nostrils.[3]

References

  1. ^ Groves, C. (2005-11-16). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 166. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ a b Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group (2000). Miopithecus talapoin. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
  3. ^ Kingdon, J. (1997). The Kingdon Guide to African Mammals. Academic Press Limited, London, 56-57. ISBN 0-12-408355-2. 
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