Papio sphinx (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Primates
- family
- Cercopithecidae
- genus
- Mandrillus
- species
- Mandrillus sphinx
conservation
PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as P. (= Mandrillus) sphinx and U. S. ESA - Endangered as P. sphinx.
discussion
COMMENT: Delson and Napier, 1976, Bull. Zool. Nomenci., 33: 46, considered sphinx the type of subgenus Papio. Placed in subgenus Mandrillus by Dandelot, 1974, Part 3: 9. See Grubb, 1973, Folia Primatol., 20: 161 - 177, for details of distribution.
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Cameroun, south of the Sanaga River; Rio Muni (Equatorial Guinea); Gabon; Congo Republic.
materials_examined
TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroun, Ja River, Bitye.
Name
- Homonyms
- Papio sphinx (Linnaeus, 1758)