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Family Cercopithecidae: GUENON, ga-noN', is the common name of the various species of monkeys making up the genus Cercopithecus of the family Cercopithecidae. The classification of the guenons is subject to much dehate, with various authorities recognizing from 10 to 23 species divided into as many as 71 subspecies. The talapoin (C. talapoin), an inhabitant of swamp forests along the Atlantic coast of west central Africa and the smallest of the guenons, is sometimes placed in a separate genus, Miopithecus.
The post of shogun was inherited by ;mbers of the Minamoto family until the OOs, when the Ashikaga family took over. his family ruled until the 1600s, when the akugawa family assumed the shogunate. , 1868 the last Tokugawa shogun was reed by a court revolution to hand his >wers back to the emperor.
Almost one fourth of the earth's vegetation cover is in grasslands—the great prairies and plains of North America, the extensive pampas of South America, the steppes of Asia, and the velds of Africa. At least 7,000 species of grasses are known. The grass family (Gramineae) is outranked in number of species only by four other families-the bean family (Leguminosae), daisy family (Compositae), coffee family (Rubiaceae) and orchid family (Orchidaceae). But in numbers of individual plants spread over the globe, the grasses are unsurpassed. They have a wider range than any other plant family except for lichens and algae. |
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