Colobus polykomos

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Vulnerable

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: Rainforest and forest galleries are preferred, the species is rarely found in degraded habitat , though sometimes in secondary forests. [1].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Colobus (Colobus) polykomos (Zimmermann 1780)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 30-Jul-2002

Similar Species

Members of the genus Colobus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 24 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. angolensis (Angolan Black-And-White Colobus) · C. angolensis angolensis (Sclaters Angola Colobus) · C. angolensis cordieri (Cordiers Angola Colobus) · C. angolensis cottoni (Powell-Cotton's Angola Colobus) · C. angolensis nova (Mahale Mtns. Angola Colobus) · C. angolensis palliatus (Peters's Angola Colobus) · C. angolensis prigoginei (Prigogine's Angola Colobus?) · C. angolensis ruwenzorii (Adolf Friedrichss Angola Colobus) · C. guereza (Eastern Black-And -White Colobus) · C. guereza abyssinicus (Guereza) · C. guereza caudatus (Mt. Kilimanjaro Guereza) · C. guereza dodingae (Dodinga Hills Guereza) · C. guereza gallarum (Djaffa Mountains Guereza) · C. guereza guereza (Omo River Guereza) · C. guereza kikuyuensis (Mt. Kenya Guereza) · C. guereza matschiei (Mau Forest Guereza) · C. guereza occidentalis (Western Guereza) · C. guereza percivali (Mt Uaraguess Guereza) · C. polykomos (Western Black-And-White Colobus) · C. polykomos polykomos (Western Black-And-White Colobus) · C. satanas (Black Colobus) · C. satanas anthracinus (Gabon Black Colobus) · C. satanas satanas (Bioko Black Colobus) · C. vellerosus (Black and White Colobus Monkeys)

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Further Reading

• 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 13.
• African Ixodoidea. l. Ticks of the Sudan... [Washington]1956. url p. 558.
• Annotated CITES appendices and reservations 1988 IUCN url p. 31.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 111, p. 142.
• Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 4, October 1986: programme on man and the biosphere (MAB) IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 144, p. 147, p. 189.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 239.
• Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New YorkAmerican Museum of Natural History1881- url p. 186.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 279.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 83 1939 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 165, p. 166, p. 167, index, p. [565]-763, page 565, p. 566, p. 573, p. 594, p. 608, p. 621, p. 637, p. 661, p. 679, p. 706, p. 709, p. 714, p. 729, p. 730, p. 735, p. 754, p. 756.
• Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 132, p. 168, p. 238.
• Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 104, p. 151, p. 239, p. 142, p. 178.
• Checklist of mammals listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 125, p. 24.
• Ecologically sensitive sites in Africa / Washington, DC, USA: World Bank, 1993. url p. 2.
• Extinct and vanishing mammals of the Old World. Illus. by Earl L. Poole. New York, American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, 1945. url p. 161, p. 8, p. 818, p. 830, p. 843.
• IUCN Directory of Afrotropical Protected Areas IUCN, UNEP url p. 156, p. 158, p. 163, p. 167, p. 226, p. 228, p. 232, p. 233, p. 239, p. 489, p. 565, p. 567, p. 82, p. 837, p. 871.
• James Arthur lecture on the evolution of the human brain. New York, American Museum of Natural History. url p. 39.
• Postilla. 1967 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 2, p. 3, p. 7, p. 8.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 596.
• Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and financial report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the year ending June 30. .. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1933-1965. url p. 111, p. 114, p. 142.
• Significant trade in wildlife: a review of selected species in CITES appendix II. Vol I: Mammals IUCN, CITES url p. 2, p. 35, p. 36, p. 37, p. 38, p. 39, p. 40, p. 42.
• Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 39.
• The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Africa IUCN url p. 203.
• The Ecology of arboreal folivores: a symposium held at the Conservation and Research Center, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, May 29-31, 1975 / Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978. url p. 11, p. 195.
• The herpetofauna of Upper Niger National Park, Guinea, West Africa / by Eli Greenbaum and John L. Carr. 2005 Lawrence, Kan.: Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, [2005] url p. 18.
• The life of vertebrates. New York, Oxford University Press, 1962. url p. 624.
• The mammals of Africa: country lists. Draft document IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre, UNEP, WWF url .
• Threatened Primates of Africa: the IUCN Red Data Book IUCN, UNEP url p. 20.
• World Checklist of Threatened Mammals JNCC url p. 35.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 31, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Oates, J.F., Gippoliti, S. & Groves, C.P. 2008. Colobus polykomos. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:

• Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science: Mammal specimens
• Michigan State University Museum: Vertebrate specimens
• University of Alaska Museum of the North: University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology Mammal Collection
• University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History: Mammal specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-573037
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 573037
• IUCN ID: 201448
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 500

Footnotes

1. Oates, J.F., Gippoliti, S. & Groves, C.P. 2008. Colobus polykomos. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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