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title: "Vervet Monkey"
description: "Chlorocebus pygerythrus — Mammals. The vervet monkey, or simply vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/vervet-monkey
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Vervet Monkey

> Chlorocebus pygerythrus — Mammals. The vervet monkey, or simply vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa.

- Scientific name: *Chlorocebus pygerythrus*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammals)
- Habitats: `savanna` (Savanna)
- iNaturalist observations: 13963
- Wikidata: [Q8985570](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8985570)
- iNaturalist taxon: [68137](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/68137)

## Names

- en: Vervet Monkey
- de: Südliche Grünmeerkatze
- es: Cercopiteco verde
- fr: Vervet bleu
- it: Cercopiteco verde
- nl: Vervet
- pl: Koczkodan tumbili

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (7112), KE (2261), TZ (1696), ZW (416), BW (336), MW (234), ZM (221), UG (181), RW (150), MZ (147), NA (75), SZ (72)

## Summary

The vervet monkey, or simply vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa. The term "vervet" is also used to refer to all the members of the genus Chlorocebus. The five distinct subspecies can be found mostly throughout Southern Africa, as well as some of the eastern countries. These mostly herbivorous monkeys have black faces and grey body hair color, ranging in body length from about 40 cm (16 in) for females, to about 50 cm (20 in) for males.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vervet_monkey

## Photo

![Vervet Monkey](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/vervet-monkey/medium.jpg)

Photo: lallen · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/33106509

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/vervet-monkey?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).