Order Primates
Author
Colin P. Groves
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
243
277
book chapter
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Miopithecus
I. Geoffroy, 1862
C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 15:720
.
TYPE SPECIES:
Simia talapoin
Schreber, 1774
.
COMMENTS: Is a subgenus of
Cercopithecus
according to
Szalay and Delson (1979)
, but also see
Groves (1978b
, 1989). A second species of
Miopithecus
,
described by
Machado (1969)
has not yet been named; its distribution is
Gabon
,
Equatorial Guinea
and
Cameroon
.