Dryad Monkey vs erva-tostão

Chlorocebus dryas compared with Boerhavia diffusa

Key Differences

• Dryad Monkey is Endangered while erva-tostão is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Dryad Monkey	erva-tostão
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (plantas)
Phylum	Chordata (cordados)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (mamíferos)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Primates (primatas)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Cercopithecidae (Old World Monkeys)	Nyctaginaceae
Genus	Chlorocebus	Boerhavia
Species	Chlorocebus dryas	Boerhavia diffusa

Conservation Status

Dryad Monkey

EN — Endangered

erva-tostão

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Dryad Monkey	erva-tostão
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Dryad Monkey

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

erva-tostão

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, among 5 distinct biome types within the Indomalayan biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (11 countries), Asia (7 countries), and South America (4 countries).