Black-and-white colobus

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

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Black-and-white colobus are Old World monkeys of the genus Colobus 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

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c Groves, C. (2005-11-16). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds). ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd edition ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 167-168. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.