Endangered
Diana monkey
Cercopithecus diana
The Diana monkey is an Old World monkey found in the high canopy forests in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and western Côte d'Ivoire Named for its white brow, that is said to resemble the bow of the Roman goddess Diana, this black-grey guenon has a white throat, crescent-shaped browband, ruff, and beard.
Appearance
The monkeys' underarms are also white, and they have a white stripe down their thighs, while the backs of their thighs and their lower backs are a chestnut colour. Apart from the browband, ruff, and beard, and some fringes on their limbs, their fur is rough and tough. The Diana monkey is an Old World monkey found in the high canopy forests in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and western Côte d'Ivoire Named for its white brow, that is said to resemble the bow of the Roman goddess Diana, this black-grey guenon has a white throat, crescent-shaped browband, ruff, and beard.
The Diana monkey ranges from 40 to 55 cm (16 to 22 in) in length, excluding its tail, that is of a uniform 3–4 cm diameter, and 50–75 cm (20–30 in) long.
Range and habitat
This species can be found in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Côte d'Ivoire. The Diana monkey is found in primary forests and does not thrive in secondary forests. The species is regarded as endangered by the IUCN, as well as by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the chief dangers to them being habitat destruction (they are now virtually confined to coastal areas) and hunting for bushmeat.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Diana monkey is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Diana monkey, Wikidata item Q724362. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
