Olive Colobus

Olive Colobus

Taxobox
name = Olive ColobusMSW3 Groves | pages = 169, 172-173]
status = NT
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Primate Specialist Group | year = 1996 | id = 18245 | title = Procolobus verus | downloaded = 2007-07-29]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cercopithecidae
genus = "Procolobus"
genus_authority = Rochebrune, 1877
species = "P. verus"
binomial = "Procolobus verus"
binomial_authority = (Van Beneden, 1838)
synonyms =

The Olive Colobus or Van Beneden's Colobus ("Procolobus verus") is a species of primate in the Cercopithecidae family. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and possibly Benin. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The Olive Colobus is the only species currently in the genus "Procolobus"; all other extant species have been removed to the new genus "Piliocolobus".

References

External links

* ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Procolobus_verus/ images and movies of the Olive colobus "(Procolobus verus)"]


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