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Definition of Genus Cercocebus
1. Noun. Mangabeys.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Cercopithecidae, Family Cercopithecidae
Member holonyms: Mangabey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cercocebus
Literary usage of Genus Cercocebus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book to the Primates by Henry Ogg Forbes (1897)
"genus Cercocebus. Cercocebus, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 97 (1812). This genus
has been established to receive a small, and but little known, ..."
2. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1865)
"The nasal hones in the genus Semnopithecus are short, nearly straight, and flat ;
in P. albigena, as in the genus Cercocebus, they are more elongated ..."
3. Studies Scientific & Social by Alfred Russel Wallace (1900)
"We have first the gorilla and chimpanzee, corresponding to the orangs of Borneo
and Sumatra; and among the quadrumana the genus Cercocebus allied to the ..."
4. Studies Scientific & Social by Alfred Russel Wallace (1900)
"We have first the gorilla and chimpanzee, corresponding to the orangs of Borneo
and Sumatra ; and among the quadrumana the genus Cercocebus allied to the ..."
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