- Art Gallery -

Piliocolobus

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Theria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Ordo: Primates
Subordo: Haplorrhini
Infraordo: Simiiformes
Parvordo: Catarrhini
Superfamilia: Cercopithecoidea
Familia: Cercopithecidae
Subfamilia: Colobinae
Genus: Piliocolobus
Species: P. badius - P. pennantii - P. preussi - P. tholloni - P. foai - P. tephrosceles - P. gordonorum - P. kirkii - P. rufomitratus

Name

Piliocolobus (Rochebrune, 1877)

Type species: Simia (Cercopithecus) badius Kerr, 1792

Synonyms

* Tropicolobus Rochebrune, 1887

Vernacular names
English: Red Colobus

Comments

Separate from Colobus, see Corbet and Hill (1980:90) and Groves (1989); separate from Procolobus (Groves, 2001c).

References

* Piliocolobus on Mammal Species of the World.
* Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World : A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2-volume set(3rd ed).

Biology Encyclopedia

Mammals Images

Source: Wikispecies: All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License