Lang's red colobus
Lang's red colobus is a type of red colobus monkey. Historically it had been treated as a subspecies of the Central African red colobus, (P. foai)[1] but more recent taxonomies generally treat it as a separate species.[2][3][4]
| Lang's red colobus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Genus: | Piliocolobus |
| Species: | P. langi |
| Binomial name | |
| Piliocolobus langi (J. A. Allen, 1925) | |
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| Lang's red colobus range in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| Synonyms | |
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Piliocolobus foai ellioti | |
Lang's red colobus lives in lowland rainforest in the northeastern portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between the Lualaba River and the Aruwimi-Ituri River.[2] It eats leaves, fruit, flowers, buds and possibly seeds.[2][4] Males have a head and body length of about 50 cm (20 in) with a tail length of about 66.5 cm (26.2 in).[2] Females have a head and body length about 48.5 cm (19.1 in) with a tail length of between 44 and 66.5 cm (17.3 and 26.2 in).[2] Males weigh about 9 kg (20 lb) and females weigh about 7.7 kg (17 lb).[2]
References
- Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 169. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- Zinner, D.; Fickenscher, G.H.; Roos, C. (2013). Mittermeier, Russell A.; Rylands, Anthony B.; Wilson, Don E. (eds.). Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Volume 3, Primates. Lynx. p. 710. ISBN 978-8496553897.
- Groves, C.P. (2016). "Species concepts and conservation". In Wich, Serge A.; Marshall, Andrew J. (eds.). An Introduction to Primate Conservation. pp. 45–47. ISBN 9780198703396.
- Ting, Nelson (2016). Rowe, Noel; Myers, Marc (eds.). All the World's Primates. Pogonias Press. pp. 540–541. ISBN 9781940496061.