Lowe's Monkey
Cercopithecus lowei
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 99
- Most observed in
- 🇬🇭 Ghana
- Conservation
- Vulnerable
Description
Lowe's mona monkey (Cercopithecus lowei) is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae found from the Ivory Coast to Ghana. It was previously classified as a subspecies of Campbell's mona monkey C. campbelli. The species is named after the naturalist collector Willoughby Prescott Lowe.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Lowe's mona monkey”.