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title: "White-throated Monkey"
description: "Cercopithecus erythrogaster — Mammals. The white-throated guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster), also known as the red-bellied monkey and the red-bellied guenon, is a diurnal primate that lives on trees of rainforests or tropical areas of Nigeria and Benin."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/white-throated-monkey
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# White-throated Monkey

> Cercopithecus erythrogaster — Mammals. The white-throated guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster), also known as the red-bellied monkey and the red-bellied guenon, is a diurnal primate that lives on trees of rainforests or tropical areas of Nigeria and Benin.

- Scientific name: *Cercopithecus erythrogaster*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammals)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 86
- Wikidata: [Q1150237](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1150237)
- iNaturalist taxon: [43476](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43476)

## Names

- en: White-throated Monkey
- de: Rotbauchmeerkatze
- es: Cercopiteco de garganta blanca
- fr: Cercopithèque à ventre rouge
- nl: Roodbuikmeerkat
- pl: Koczkodan rudobrzuchy

## Countries with the most observations

BJ (80)

## Summary

The white-throated guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster), also known as the red-bellied monkey and the red-bellied guenon, is a diurnal primate that lives on trees of rainforests or tropical areas of Nigeria and Benin.
The white-throated guenon is usually a frugivore but insects, leaves, and crops are also in its diet. It usually lives in small groups of four to five individual monkeys however, there have been groups of 30 discovered, and in cases, some males wander alone. It is arboreal, living in moist tropical forest and the wettest parts of dry tropical forest, however it can also be found in secondary bush and…

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

## Photo

![White-throated Monkey](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-throated-monkey/medium.jpg)

Photo: Joseph Smit · Public domain · commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CercopithecusErythrogasterSmit.jpg

## Machine access

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