Lang's red colobus

Lang's red colobus
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Cercopithecidae
Genus:	Piliocolobus
Species:	P. langi
Binomial name
Piliocolobus langi (J. A. Allen, 1925)
Lang's red colobus range in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Synonyms
Piliocolobus foai ellioti Piliocolobus rufomitratus ellioti

Lang's red colobus (Piliocolobus langi) is a species of red colobus monkey. Historically it had been treated as a subspecies of the Central African red colobus, (P. foai) ^[2] but more recent taxonomies generally treat it as a separate species. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Lang's red colobus lives in lowland rainforest in the northeastern portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between the Lualaba River and the Aruwimi-Ituri River. ^[3] It eats leaves, fruit, flowers, buds and possibly seeds. ^{[3] [5]} Males have a head and body length of about 50  cm (20  in ) with a tail length of about 66.5  cm (26.2  in ). ^[3] Females have a head and body length about 48.5  cm (19.1  in ) with a tail length of between 44 and 66.5  cm (17.3 and 26.2  in ). ^[3] Males weigh about 9  kg (20  lb ) and females weigh about 7.7  kg (17  lb ). ^[3]

References

1. Hart, J.; Laudisoit, A.; Struhsaker, T.T.; Oates, J.F. (2020). "Piliocolobus langi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020: e.T18261A166605018. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
2. Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 169. ISBN   0-801-88221-4. OCLC   62265494.
3. Zinner, D.; Fickenscher, G.H.; Roos, C. (2013). Mittermeier, Russell A.; Rylands, Anthony B.; Wilson, Don E. (eds.). Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Volume 3, Primates. Lynx. p. 710. ISBN   978-8496553897.
4. Groves, C.P. (2016). "Species concepts and conservation". In Wich, Serge A.; Marshall, Andrew J. (eds.). An Introduction to Primate Conservation. Oxford University Press. pp. 45–47. ISBN   9780198703396.
5. Ting, Nelson (2016). Rowe, Noel; Myers, Marc (eds.). All the World's Primates. Pogonias Press. pp. 540–541. ISBN   9781940496061.