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Cercocebus galeritus (Tana River mangabey)

Synonyms: Cercocebus galeritus galeritus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Tana River mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus) is a highly endangered species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. Some authorities have included the taxa agilis and sanjei as subspecies of this species, while others award these full species status.
View Wikipedia Record: Cercocebus galeritus

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Cercocebus galeritus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
52
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.69
EDGE Score: 4.12
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15.578 lbs (7.066 kg)
Female Weight [1]  11.244 lbs (5.10 kg)
Male Weight [1]  19.914 lbs (9.033 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  77.1 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Vertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  6 years 2 months
Gestation [3]  5 months 25 days
Litter Size [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  21 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  28 inches (70 cm)
Weaning [3]  1 year

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Parc National d'Odzala National Park II 3423581 Congo  
Reserve Forestiere et de Faune du Dja Wildlife Reserve IV 1551322 Cameroon  
Tana River Primate National Reserve National Protective Forests Reserves 41761 Kenya  

Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) Sites

Name  Location   Map   Climate   Land Use 
Lower Tana River Kenya

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Cephalophus silvicultor (yellow-backed duiker)1
Eulemur macaco (black lemur)1
Loxodonta africana (African Bush Elephant)1
Tauraco persa (Guinea Turaco)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ascaridia galli[5]
Entamoeba coli[5]
Entamoeba hartmanni[5]
Entamoeba histolytica[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Diet and habitat overlap in two sympatric primate species, the Tana crested mangabey Cercocebus galeritus and yellow baboon Papio cynocephalus, G WAHUNGU, Afr. J. Ecol. 1998, Volume 36, pages 159-173
♦ 5Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
AZE sites provided by Alliance for Zero Extinction (2010). 2010 AZE Update.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0