Black-and-white colobus

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Black-and-white colobi
Mantled Guereza (Colobus guereza)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Family: Cercopithecidae Subfamily: Colobinae Genus: Colobus Illiger, 1811
Type species
Simia polycomos Schreber, 1800 (= Cebus polykomos Zimmermann, 1780)
Species
Colobus satanas Colobus angolensis Colobus polykomos Colobus vellerosus Colobus guereza

Black-and-white colobus are of Old World monkeys of the genus Colobus and are closely related to the red colobus monkeys of genus Piliocolobus. The word "colobus" comes from Greek ekolobóse "he cut short" and is so named because its thumb is a stump.

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

[edit] References

• 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. 

[edit] External links

• Colobus Monkey: Wildlife summary from the African Wildlife Foundation
• Primate Info Net Colobus Factsheets