Cercopithecus cephus
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English: Moustached monkey
German: Blaumaul-meerkatze
French: Moustac
Spanish: Mono de bigote
Distribution areas
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The moustached monkey is found in West
Africa.
Description of the fur
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The skins are from 45 to 65 cm long.
Their hair coat is brown-green with a The surface structure
darker belly part of a blue-gray shade. The of the skin, 200x
face is distinctively blue with a white
spot and yellow hairs on the mouth. The undercoat layer is light-grey in
colour. The guard hairs are straight and white stripped.
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Cercopithecus cephus
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English: Moustached monkey
German: Blaumaul-meerkatze
French: Moustac
Spanish: Mono de bigote
Structure of the hair.
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The microscopic structure of the skin
surface is of the regularly grooved type.
The follicles are narrow with straight
edges, and usually contain only one hair
shaft. The fine fur fibres have a circular,
or an oval cross-section. The diameter of
these fibres is from 15 to 35 µm. The The cuticular structure
cuticular scales are cornet-like and scale of the fine fibres, 600x
surface is smooth and the margins are
straight. These fine fibres are non-medullated.
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Cercopithecus cephus
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English: Moustached monkey
German: Blaumaul-meerkatze
French: Moustac
Spanish: Mono de bigote
The intermediate fibres are circular, or
oval in cross-sectional outline. The
diameter is between 50 and 80 µm. The
cuticle is covered by rounded, tile-like
scales with a smooth surface and straight
scale margins. The medullary column is
narrow, unbroken and central-symmetrical in
shape. The overall medullary structure is
of the uniserial ladder type with an The cuticular structure
amorphous infilling substance. of an intermediate hair, 2000x
The guard hairs have a circular cross-section at the bottom, and an
elliptical in the middle and upper parts of the shaft. The diameter of these
fibres is in the range of 70 to 130 µm. The cuticular scales are even,
tile-like and the scale surface is smooth with straight scale margins, but in
the upper parts the scales may also have a non-regular grooved surface. The
medulla is narrow, longitudinally unbroken and situated symmetrically in the
central axial part of the shaft. The overall medullary structure is of the
uniserial ladder type with a sheet-like infilling material.
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Cercopithecus cephus
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English: Moustached monkey
German: Blaumaul-meerkatze
French: Moustac
Spanish: Mono de bigote
Longitudinal section
of an intermediate fibre, 600x
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Cercopithecus cephus
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English: Moustached monkey
German: Blaumaul-meerkatze
French: Moustac
Spanish: Mono de bigote
The cuticular structure
of a guard hair, 600x
Numerical code for moustached monkey skin structure
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Surface of the skin: 2-4-1
Fine fur fibres: 1.2-5-1-1-4-0-0-0-0-15.35-12.18
Intermediate fibres: 2.1-3-1-1-3-1-1-1-8-50.81-25.45
Guard hairs: 2.1-2-1.3-1-3-1-1-1-1-70.131-40.65
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