Central African Red Colobus

Taxobox
name = Central African Red ColobusMSW3 Groves | pages = 169|id=12100625]
status = DD
status_system = iucn2.3
status_ref = IUCN2007 | assessors = Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group | year = 2000 | id = 18252 | title = Procolobus badius "ssp." foai | downloaded = 2008-04-20]


image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cercopithecidae
genus = "Piliocolobus"
species = "P. foai"
binomial = "Piliocolobus foai"
binomial_authority = (de Pousargues, 1899)
synonyms =

The Central African Red Colobus ("Piliocolobus foai") is an Old World monkey in the Cercopithecidae family. It is found humid forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and Sudan.

Taxonomy

The taxonomy is potentially confusing. "Piliocolobus foai" has, together with all other red colobuses, been considered a subspecies of "Piliocolobus badius". [cite book |author=Rowe, N. |year=1996 |title=The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates |publisher=Pogonia Press, Charlestown, Rhode Island |isbn=0-9648825-0-7] When considered a separate species, the scientific name "Piliocolobus oustaleti" (Trouessart, 1906) has been used for 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] but this is incorrect, as the taxon "foai" precedes "oustaleti" by 7 years. Additionally, the taxon "tephrosceles" has been considered a subspecies of the Central African Red Colobus, but following Groves (2001) it is here recognized as a separate species, the Ugandan Red Colobus. As presently defined, the Central African Red Colobus has 5 subspecies, although these are variable and hard to separate:

* "Piliocolobus foai foai"
* "Piliocolobus foai ellioti"
* "Piliocolobus foai oustaleti"
* "Piliocolobus foai semlikiensis"
* "Piliocolobus foai parmentierorum"

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