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Procolobus preussi

(Preusss Red Colobus)

Overview

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Critically Endangered

Threat status

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Preusss Red Colobus, Korup Red Colobus, Preuss' red colobus, Preuss's Red Colobus

Description

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Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Ecology: An inhabitant of lowland and mid-altitude moist forest up to 1,400 m (Kingdon and Butynski in press ). Edwards (1992) recorded group sizes of 20-64 animals for P. p. preussi, similar to those recorded by J. Linder (pers. comm. ).[1].

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Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Procolobus badius ssp. preussi

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 30-Jul-2002

Here treated as a distinct species from P. pennantii following Kingdon and Butynski (in press ); this species has, in the past, also been considered a subspecies of P. badius.[1].

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Procolobus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 27 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. badius (West African Red Colobus) · P. badius badius (Upper Guinea Red Colobus) · P. badius ellioti (Elliot's Red Colobus) · P. badius foai (Foa Red Colobus) · P. badius gordonorum (Western Red Colobus) · P. badius kirkii (Western Red Colobus) · P. badius langi (Kisangani Red Colobus) · P. badius lulindicus (Kahuzi Red Colobus) · P. badius parmentieri (Lomami Red Colobus) · P. badius rufomitratus (Western Red Colobus) · P. badius temminckii (Temmincks Red Colobus) · P. badius waldronae (Miss Waldron's Bay Colobus) · P. badius waldroni (Miss Waldrons Red Colobus) · P. gordonorum (Udzungwa Red Colobus) · P. kirkii (Zanzibar Red Colobus) · P. pennantii (Bouvier's Red Colobus) · P. pennantii bouvieri (Bouviers Red Colobus) · P. pennantii epieni (Niger Delta Red Colobus) · P. pennantii pennantii (Bioko Red Colobus) · P. pennantii preussi (Preuss's Red Colobus) · P. preussi (Preusss Red Colobus) · P. rufomitratus (Tana River Red Colobus) · P. rufomitratus oustaleti (Oustalets Red Colobus) · P. rufomitratus rufomitratus (Tana River Red Colobus) · P. rufomitratus tephrosceles (Uganda Red Colobus) · P. rufomitratus tholloni (Thollon's Red Colobus) · P. verus (Van Beneden's Colobus)

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Notes

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Footnotes

  1. Oates, J.F., Struhsaker, T., Morgan, B., Linder, J. & Ting, N. 2008. Procolobus preussi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 7/15/2012