Black Colobus

Black Colobus

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status = VU
status_system = iucn3.1
trend = ?
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group | year = 2000 | title = Colobus satanas | id = 5145 | downloaded = 2007-02-23]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cercopithecidae
genus = "Colobus"
species = "C. satanas"
binomial = "Colobus satanas"
binomial_authority = Waterhouse, 1838

The Black Colobus ("Colobus satanas") or Satanic Black Colobus is an Old World monkey belonging to the "Colobus" genus. This monkey is considered by some to be the most primitive of the colobus monkeys. The Black Colobus has dark skin under a long black coat of fur and a long black tail. Males of this species can weigh up to 24.25 lb (11 kg). The Black Colobus is one of the ten most endangered African primate species. [cite web | author = Blair, D. | year = 2002 | title = Colobus satanas | work = [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu Animal Diversity Web] | accessdate = 2007-02-23 | url = http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Colobus_satanas.html]

References

External links

* ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Colobus_satanas/ images and movies of the Black colobus "(Colobus satanas)"]


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