Temminck's red colobus

Temminck's red colobus [1]
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Cercopithecidae
Genus:	Piliocolobus
Species:	P. badius
Subspecies:	P. b. temminckii
Trinomial name
Piliocolobus badius temminckii (Kuhl, 1820)
Temmick's red colobus range shown in yellow
Synonyms
Piliocolobus temminckii

Temminck's red colobus (Piliocolobus badius temminckii) is a type of red colobus monkey from the Gambia, Casamance, Guinea-Bissau and northwestern Guinea. It has historically been regarded as a subspecies of the western red colobus (Piliocolobus badius), ^[1] and the Integrated Taxonomic Information System and Mammal Diversity Database both maintain this classification, ^{[3] [4]} but many less recent taxonomies classify it as a separate species (Piliocolobus temminckii). ^{[5] [6]}

Temminck's red colobus generally lives in dry deciduous and gallery forests. In Senegal it also lives in savannah. ^[5] No other red colobus lives in savannah. ^[5] The use of savannah and open areas may be a recent adaptation to deforestation, since researchers in the 1970s always found Temminck's red colobus in tall, dense forest. ^[5] Temminck's red colobus living in savannahs often associate with green monkeys, and sometimes also associate with patas monkeys and bushbucks for defense against predators. ^{[5] [7]} Temminck's red colobus differs from the Western red colobus in that the Western red colobus lives in rainforest rather than dry forest and savannah, which may explain differences in behavior. ^[6]

The majority of its diet consists of fruit and leaves. Seeds, flowers, buds, bark and nuts account for most of the rest of the diet. ^[7]

Temminck's red colobus is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ^[2] Primary threats include deforestation and hunting. ^[7]

References

1. 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.
2. Minhós, T.; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Bersacola, E.; Galat, G.; Galat-Luong, A.; Mayhew, M.; Starin, E.D. (2020). "Piliocolobus badius ssp. temminckii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020: e.T18247A92648587. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T18247A92648587.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
3. "Piliocolobus badius temminckii". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 2019-01-07.
4. "Piliocolobus badius (Kerr, 1792)". Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
5. 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. pp. 705–706. ISBN   978-8496553897.
6. Groves, C.P. (2016). "Species concepts and conservation". In Wich, Serge A.; Marshall, Andrew J. (eds.). An Introduction to Primate Conservation. pp. 45–47. ISBN   9780198703396.
7. Galat-Luong, A.; et al. (2016). Rowe, Noel; Myers, Marc (eds.). All the World's Primates. Pogonias Press. pp. 547–549. ISBN   9781940496061.