Roloway monkey: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Roloway monkey lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Cercopithecus roloway
Group	Monkeys
Status	Critically endangered (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Africa
Class	Mammal
Order	Primates
Family	Cercopithecidae

Where does the Roloway monkey live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Roloway monkey in 1 country or territory across Africa.

Ivory Coast

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the Roloway monkey endangered?

The Roloway monkey’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Critically endangered” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the Roloway monkey?

The Roloway monkey (Cercopithecus roloway) is a mammal in the order Primates and the family Cercopithecidae, genus Cercopithecus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Roloway monkey

The Roloway monkey (Cercopithecus roloway) is an endangered species of Old World monkey endemic to tropical West Africa. It was previously considered a subspecies of the Diana monkey (C. diana). The species is classified as critically endangered due to habitat loss and their continued hunting because of the bushmeat trade. The Roloway monkey is mainly an arboreal species, for the most part inhabiting forests in Ghana and some reserves in south-eastern Côte-D'Ivoire. More specifically, C. roloway is primarily concentrated in the Tanoé Forest of the Côte-D'Ivoire because of their heavy threats to extinction and lack of habitat. Gathering data on wild subjects is still difficult, as they have low and vanishing populations in a vast forest, but they are a unique species.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Roloway monkey (revision 1378178820), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q636075 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).