Piliocolobus bouvieri

de Rochebrune, 1887

Bouvier's Red 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 : Piliocolobus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Faune de la Senegambie, Suppl., Vert6br6s, pt. 1, p. 108, pl. 4, 1887

Original name as described

Piliocolobus bouvieri

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1886-109, MNHN-ZM-MO-1886-110

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

"Gambia" (selected by J. A. Allen in 1939). But according to R. E. Moreau and colleagues in 1946, "Mongo, right bank of the Congo, two days journey by boat above the mouth of the Alima River."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Republic of the Congo

Taxonomy notes

split from P. pennantii

Taxonomy notes citation

Groves, C.P. 2007. The taxonomic diversity of the Colobinae of Africa. Journal of Anthropological Sciences 85: 7-34.

IUCN Red List status

Endangered

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