Common patas monkey
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"Patas" redirects here. For the Romanian village of Pătaş, see Prigor.
The common patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas), also known as the hussar monkey,[2] is a ground-dwelling monkey distributed over semi-arid areas of West Africa, and into East Africa.
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Common patas monkey[1] | |
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At the San Francisco Zoo, California, U.S. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Cercopithecidae |
Genus: | Erythrocebus |
Species: | E. patas |
Binomial name | |
Erythrocebus patas (Schreber, 1775) | |
Geographic range (includes E. poliophaeus and E. baumstarki) |
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