Pennant's Colobus

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name = Pennant's ColobusMSW3 Groves | pages = 170]
status = CR
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group | year = 2000 | id = 39996 | title = Procolobus pennantii | downloaded = 2007-07-29]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cercopithecidae
genus = "Piliocolobus"
species = "P. pennantii"
binomial = "Piliocolobus pennantii"
binomial_authority = (Waterhouse, 1838)
synonyms =

Pennant's Colobus ("Piliocolobus pennantii") is a species of primate in the Cercopithecidae family. Its distribution is peculiarly disjunct and has been considered a biogeographical puzzle, with one population on the island of Bioko (Equatorial Guinea), a second in the Niger River Delta in southern Nigeria, and a third in east-central Republic of Congo.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 is found in rainforests and marshy forests. It is threatened by habitat loss and hunting for bushmeat, and one subspecies, "bouvieri", is rated as Critically Endangered, [IUCN2007 | assessors = Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group | year = 2000 | id = 18250 | title = Procolobus pennantii ssp. bouvieri | downloaded = 2008-07-20] with some fearing that it already may be extinct, as there have been no confirmed sightings in at least 20 years. [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Piliocolobus_pennantii/ Pennant's red colobus] . ARKive. Accessed 2008-07-20]

Three subspecies of this red colobus are recognized:

*Bioko Red Colobus, "Piliocolobus pennantii pennantii"
*Niger Delta Red Colobus, "Piliocolobus pennantii epieni"
*Bouvier's Red Colobus, "Piliocolobus pennantii bouvieri"

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