Cercocebus albigena (Gray, 1850) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1850:77.

TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire, Mayombe .

DISTRIBUTION: S.E. Nigeria, Cameroun, Congo Republic, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, N.E. Angola, Central African Republic, Zaire, W. Uganda, Burundi; W. Kenya; W. Tanzania.

COMMENT: Type of subgenus Lophocebus; includes aterrimus and opdenboschi; see Groves, 1978, Primates, 19:1 -34, but see also Szalay and Delson, 1979.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Order Primates .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301406008001001001 as C. albigena .

5301406008001002001 as C. aterrimus.