Sykes' monkey also known as the white-throated monkey or Samango monkey, is an Old World monkey

Old World monkey

The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini. The Old World monkeys are native to Africa and Asia today, inhabiting a range of environments from tropical rain forest to savanna, shrubland and mountainous...

 found between Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

 and South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, including south and east Democratic Republic of Congo. It has been considered conspecific with the blue monkey

Blue Monkey

The blue monkey or diademed monkey is a species of Old World monkey native to Central and East Africa, ranging from the upper Congo River basin east to the Great Rift Valley and south to northern Angola and Zambia...

 (which in turn has included the golden

Golden Monkey

The golden monkey is a species of Old World monkey found in the Virunga volcanic mountains of Central Africa, including four national parks: Mgahinga, in south-west Uganda; Volcanoes, in north-west Rwanda; and Virunga and Kahuzi-Biéga, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo...

 and silver monkey

Silver Monkey

The silver monkey is a species of Old World monkey found primarily in East Africa. Its range includes Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The silver monkey was previously considered a subspecies of the blue monkey .- External links :* Flickr -...

), but has a large white patch on the throat and upper chest, and a grizzled (not blackish) cap.

Subspecies

There are 12 subspecies of Sykes' Monkey:

• Cercopithecus albogularis albogularis – Zanzibar Sykes' monkey
• Cercopithecus albogularis albotorquatus – Pousargues' Sykes' monkey
• Cercopithecus albogularis erythrarchus – White-throated guenon
• Cercopithecus albogularis francescae
• Cercopithecus albogularis kibonotensis
• Cercopithecus albogularis kolbi
• Cercopithecus albogularis labiatus – White-lipped monkey or Samango monkey
• Cercopithecus albogularis moloneyi
• Cercopithecus albogularis monoides
• Cercopithecus albogularis phylax
• Cercopithecus albogularis schwarzi
• Cercopithecus albogularis zammaranoi – Zammarano's white-throated guenon