#0499 · 🦊 mammals

Green Monkey

🇳🇱 Geelgroene Meerkat ·Chlorocebus sabaeus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Michael Barth · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © robin_de_bear · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Steven Mlodinow · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Allan Hopkins · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Mark Stevens · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Steven Mlodinow · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Tarrafal, Cap-Vert:© michi1 · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 1300 Eller Dr, Dania Beach, FL, US:© Tim Guida · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Toa Alta, 00953, Puerto Rico:© Sergio Rivero Beneitez · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
10. 1101 Eller Dr, Dania Beach, FL, US:© Chase Rakowski · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The green monkey ( Chlorocebus sabaeus ), also known as the sabaeus monkey or the callithrix monkey , is an Old World monkey with golden-green fur and pale hands and feet. The tip of the tail is golden yellow as are the backs of the thighs and cheek whiskers. It does not have a distinguishing band of fur on the brow, like other Chlorocebus species, and males have a pale blue scrotum. Some authorities consider this and all of...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,871iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
1,871 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).