Western red colobus

Western red colobus[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Subfamily: Colobinae
Genus: Procolobus
Species: P. badius
Binomial name
Procolobus badius
(Kerr, 1792)
Western Red Colobus range
(green — extant, orange — possibly extinct)

The western red colobus (Procolobus badius) is a species of Old World monkey found in West African forests from Senegal to Ghana.[1] All other species of red colobuses have formerly been considered subspecies of P. badius. It is often hunted by the common chimpanzee. In 1994, western red colobus monkeys infected many chimpanzees with Ebola virus when they were hunted/eaten by the same chimpanzees.[3]

Subspecies

This red colobus has three subspecies, including the nominate:[1]

P. b. waldronae is critically endangered, possibly even extinct. The other two subspecies are endangered.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 169. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100621. 
  2. ^ a b Oates, J. F., Struhsaker, T., McGraw, S., Galat-Luong, A., Galat, G. & Ting, T. (2008). Procolobus badius. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 January 2009.
  3. ^ Ebola Cote d'Ivoire Outbreaks

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