Black-and-white colobus
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 Mantled Guereza (Colobus guereza)
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| Simia polycomos Schreber, 1800 (= Cebus polykomos Zimmermann, 1780) |
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Colobus satanas |
Black-and-white colobus are Old World monkeys of the genus Colobus[citation needed] and are closely related to the red colobus monkeys of genus Piliocolobus.[1] The word "colobus" comes from Greek ekolobóse "he cut short" and is so named because its thumb is a stump.
There are five species of this monkey, with at least eight subspecies:[1]
- Genus Colobus
- Black Colobus, Colobus satanas
- Gabon Black Colobus, Colobus satanas anthracinus
- Bioko Black Colobus, Colobus satanas satanas
- Angola Colobus, Colobus angolensis
- Colobus angolensis angolensis
- Colobus angolensis cottoni
- Adolf Friedrich's Angola Colobus or Ruwenzori Black-and-white Colobus, Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii
- Colobus angolensis cordieri
- Prigogine's Angola Colobus, Colobus angolensis prigoginei
- Peter's Angolan Colobus or Tanzanian Black-and-white Colobus, Colobus angolensis palliatus
- King Colobus, Colobus polykomos
- Ursine Colobus, Colobus vellerosus
- Mantled Guereza, Colobus guereza
- Black Colobus, Colobus satanas
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 167-168. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
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- Colobus Monkey: Wildlife summary from the African Wildlife Foundation
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