Ugandan Red Colobus

Taxobox
name = Ugandan Red ColobusMSW3 Groves|pages=170|id=12100639]
status = Appendix II
status_system = CITES
status_ref = [UNEP-WCMC. 7 July, 2008. [http://www.unep-wcmc.org/isdb/CITES/Taxonomy/tax-species-result.cfm/isdb/CITES/Taxonomy/tax-species-result.cfm?displaylanguage=eng&Genus=Piliocolobus&Species=tephrosceles&source=animals&Country= UNEP-WCMC Species Database: CITES-Listed Species] ]

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cercopithecidae
genus = "Piliocolobus"
species = "P. tephrosceles"
binomial = "Piliocolobus tephrosceles"
binomial_authority = (Elliot, 1907)

The Ugandan Red Colobus ("Piliocolobus tephrosceles") is a species of red colobus monkey found in forests of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and western Tanzania. It has been considered a subspecies of the Western Red Colobus, and later a subspecies of the Central African Red Colobus. [cite book |author=Kingdon, J. |year=1997 |title=The Kingdon Guide to African Mammals |publisher=Academic Press Limited, London |isbn=0-12-408355-2] It was recognised as a distinct species by Groves in 2001.

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