Colobus vellerosus

(I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1834)

White-thighed Colobus

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Primates
Suborder : Haplorhini
Infraorder : Simiiformes
Parvorder : Catarrhini
Superfamily : Cercopithecoidea
Family : Cercopithecidae
Subfamily : Colobinae
Tribe : Colobini
Genus : Colobus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

<i>In</i> Bélanger, Voy. Indes-Orientales, Zool., 37

Original name as described

Semnopithecus vellerosus

Other common names

Geoffroy's Black-and-white Colobus · Ursine Colobus · White-thighed Black-and-white Colobus

Type locality

Afrique.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Cote d'Ivoire · Burkina Faso · Ghana · Togo · Benin · Nigeria

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000640

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Colobus leucomeros

W. Ogilby, 1838

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

leucomeros

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1855.12.24.405

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/3ed58176-7f31-409c-8f57-d8633753446c https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/ea14c39b-ee02-476c-8b01-05ff0c6c9c84

Authority page

69

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30570954

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

  1. Lesson (1842:4) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  2. Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

Colobus polykomos dollmani

E. Schwarz, 1927

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

dollmani

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1923.2.3.4

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/7c1fd42e-d1c0-4907-bff8-b51394e1c7ef https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/8fe289a1-56c7-4de7-a4e3-9bc525a2d4d4

Authority page

155

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

Colobus vellerosus

Groves, 2005

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

vellerosus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

  1. Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)
  2. Mittermeier, Rylands & Wilson (2013:702) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59513)
  3. Butynski, Kingdon & Kalina (2013:109) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37955)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #5146) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #5146) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000640) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  7. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/5146/169472127) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Colobus Leucomerus

W. Ogilby, 1838

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

leucomerus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

288

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Ogilby (1838:288) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39314)

Semnopithecus vellerosus

(I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1834)

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

vellerosus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

37

Authority publication

book

Name usages

Lesson (1842:3) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)

Semnopithecus bicolor

(Wesmael, 1835)

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

bicolor

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

236

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2880444

Authority publication

Bulletin de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique

Name usages

  1. Lesson (1842:3) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  2. Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

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