Piliocolobus pennantii

(G. R. Waterhouse, 1838)

Pennant'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
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Waterhouse, G.R. 1838-07. Mr. Waterhouse brought before the notice of the Meeting an extremely interesting series of skins of Mammalia, which had recently been given to the Society's Museum by George Knapp, Esq., who had received them from the Island of Fernando Po. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1838(65):57-61.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30571114

Original name as described

Colobus Pennantii

Other common names

Bioko Red Colobus

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1841.1751

Type kind

lectotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/503e9af2-bf84-4e6b-b65b-8d48af9be796 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/5cb56725-17c8-45e6-b085-3ebd9245dc62

Type locality

Equatorial Guinea, Fernando Poo (Bioko) Island.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Equatorial Guinea

Taxonomy notes

previously included P. bouvieri and P. epieni

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

Critically Endangered

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000651

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 Pennantii

(G. R. Waterhouse, 1838)

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

pennantii

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1841.1751

Type kind

lectotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/503e9af2-bf84-4e6b-b65b-8d48af9be796 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/5cb56725-17c8-45e6-b085-3ebd9245dc62

Authority page

57

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30571114

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

  1. Ogilby (1838:268) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39314)
  2. Lesson (1842:4) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  3. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:234) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)

Piliocolobus pennantii

Groves, 2005

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

pennantii

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 (2013:707) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59513)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #400000387) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #400000387) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000651) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  6. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41025/92653653) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Piliocolobus pennantii pennantii

Groves, 2005

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

pennantii

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

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

Procolobus pennantii

(Butynski, Kingdon, & Kalina, 2013)

Family

Cercopithecidae

Root name

pennantii

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

137

Authority publication

book

Name usages

Butynski, Kingdon & Kalina (2013:137) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37955)

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