Piliocolobus waldroni

(Hayman, 1936)

Miss Waldron'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

Hayman, R.W. 1936-04. On a collection of mammals from the Gold Coast. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1935(4):915-937.

Original name as described

Colobus badius waldroni

Other common names

Miss Waldron's Bay Colobus

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1935.1.30.7

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Goaso, Ashanti, Ghana.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Cote d'Ivoire · Ghana?

Taxonomy notes

split from P. badius; the name 'waldronae' is often used for this species, but this is considered an unjustified emendation of the original spelling, 'waldroni', which is used here

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

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