Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

Alternative combination: Procolobus badius epieni

Full reference: P. Grubb and C.B. Powell. 1999. Discovery of red colobus monkeys (Procolobus badius) in the Niger Delta with the description of a new and geographically isolated subspecies. Journal of Zoology 248:67-73

Belongs to Piliocolobus according to C. J. Burgin et al. 2018

See also Grubb and Powell 1999

Sister taxa: Piliocolobus badius, Piliocolobus bouvieri, Piliocolobus foai, Piliocolobus gordonorum, Piliocolobus kirkii, Piliocolobus langi, Piliocolobus oustaleti, Piliocolobus parmentieri, Piliocolobus pennantii, Piliocolobus preussi, Piliocolobus rufomitratus, Piliocolobus semlikiensis, Piliocolobus temminckii, Piliocolobus tephrosceles, Piliocolobus tholloni, Piliocolobus waldronae

Type specimen: BM 94.466

Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Piliocolobus epieni in the database

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