Western Red Colobus

Taxobox
name = Western Red ColobusMSW3 Groves | pages = 169]
status = EN
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group | year = 2000 | title = Procolobus badius | id = 18240 | downloaded = 2006-07-12]

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cercopithecidae
subfamilia = Colobinae
genus = "Piliocolobus"
species = "P. badius"
binomial = "Piliocolobus badius"
binomial_authority = (Kerr, 1792)

The Western Red Colobus ("Piliocolobus badius") is a species of Old World monkey found in West African forests from Senegal to Ghana. All other species of red colobuses have formerly been considered subspecies of "P. badius". It is often hunted by the Common Chimpanzee. In 1994, Western Red Colobus monkeys infected many chimpanzees with Ebola virus when they were hunted/eaten by the same chimpanzees. [ [http://virus.stanford.edu/filo/eboci.html Ebola Cote d'Ivoire Outbreaks ] ]

ubspecies

This red colobus has three subspecies, including the nominate:
* Bay Red Colobus, "Piliocolobus badius badius"
* Temminck's Red Colobus, "Piliocolobus badius temminckii"
* Miss Waldrone's Red Colobus, "Piliocolobus badius waldronae"

"P. b. waldronae" is critically endangered, possibly even extinct. The other two subspecies are endangered.

References

External links

* ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Piliocolobus_badius/ images and movies of the Red colobus "(Piliocolobus badius)"]