White-Nosed Monkey, Liberia (USNM 481779)

USNM 481779

Old World monkeys are primates  and are more closely related to humans and apes than any other living nonhuman primate group. The Smithsonian Institution’s Division of Mammals (http://vertebrates.si.edu/mammals/) houses many Old World monkeys in its scientific collections. 

This specimen, USNM 481779 (http://collections.mnh.si.edu/search/mammals/?irn=7360725), is a male white-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus petaurista) from Liberia. This individual was collected in 1971 by D. A. Schlitter near Zwedru, located in the Grand Gedeh Province. This individual weighed 4,200 g, had a total length of 1,180 mm, a tail length of 730 mm, a hind tarsus length of 137 mm, and an ear notch length of 35 mm.

