Silver monkey

This article is about the monkey subspecies. For the DC Comics character, see Silver Monkey (comics).

The silver monkey (Cercopithecus mitis doggetti) is a subspecies of the blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis).^[2] It is an Old World monkey found primarily in East Africa. Its range includes Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[1] It was previously listed as a full species.^[1]

Silver monkey[1]
Silver monkey perched in a tree
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Cercopithecidae
Genus:	Cercopithecus
Species:	C. mitis
Subspecies:	C. m. doggetti
Trinomial name
Cercopithecus mitis doggetti Pocock, 1907
Synonyms
sibatoi (Lorenz, 1913)