Geniserian sand monkey

"Monkey Jabba, Monkey Jabba!" "That's unkind Jorrk. You'll have to excuse my associate. He saw a Geniserian sand monkey once, and hasn't failed to find the joke funny since. I am, of course, a Nimbanel."

- Jorrk saying his nickname for Mosep Binneed, who sometimes pretended to be Jabba the Hutt, causing the Nimbanel to explain it to Orrin Gault

Geniserian sand monkeys were a rare species native to the Geniseria system that had physical similarities to the Nimbanel species. The meat of a Geniserian sand monkey was considered a delicacy by some individuals when it was flambéed in foyvè oil. An associate of a Nimbanel criminal named Mosep Binneed, Jorrk, nicknamed the Nimbanel "Monkey Jabba" due to the similarity in appearance to the monkey and Binneed's occasional impersonations of Jabba Desilijic Tiure, a Hutt crime lord who the Nimbanel worked for.

Description
The Geniserian sand monkey species had some similarities in appearance to the sentient Nimbanel species.

History
A rare species, Geniserian sand monkeys were native to the Geniseria system, a star system located in the region of the galaxy known as the Expansion Region. Geniserian sand monkey meat flambéed in foyvè oil was a rare dish that was considered a delicacy by some individuals. By the year 19 BBY, Jorrk, an associate of a Nimbanel criminal named Mosep Binneed who was working for Jabba Desilijic Tiure, a Hutt crime lord, had seen a Geniserian sand monkey once. Due to Binneed's Nimbanel appearance, and the instances where he pretended to be Jabba to confuse competitors, Jorrk nicknamed Binneed "Monkey Jabba," which Jorrk found to be funny. Despite its rarity, during that year, an Elomin named Haninum Tyk Rhinann successfully obtained a dish of Geniserian sand monkey meat flambéed in foyvè oil on the planet Coruscant, the galactic capital. The Elomin provided the dish in order to satisfy the epicurean tastes of a client of a private investigator named Jax Pavan, who Rhinann worked with.

Behind the scenes
The Geniserian sand monkey was first mentioned in Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows, a 2008 novel written by Michael Reaves. In 2013, the monkey was mentioned again in dialogue by Jorrk and Mosep Binneed in Star Wars: Kenobi, a novel written by John Jackson Miller.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Kenobi
 * Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows