Mangabey

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Young cherry-crowned mangabey.

The term mangabey can refer to three different genera of Old World monkeys in the tribe Papionini.^{[citation needed]}

Genera[]

The three genera of mangabeys are:

• Lophocebus, the crested mangabeys
• Rungwecebus, the highland mangabey (kipunji)
• Cercocebus, the white-eyelid mangabeys

Lophocebus and Cercocebus were once thought to be very closely related, so much so that all the species were in one genus. However, the species within genus Lophocebus are now thought to be more closely related to the baboons in genus Papio, while the species within genus Cercocebus are more closely related to the mandrill.

The single species in Rungwecebus was discovered in 2003.^[1]

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