Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

Alternative combination: Colobus foai

Full reference: E. de Pousargues. 1899. Sur un nouveau colosse découvert par M. Ed. Foa sure la rive occidentale du lac Tanganyika. Bulletin du Muséum d'histoire naturelle 278-280

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

See also de Pousargues 1899 and Wilson and Reeder 2005

Sister taxa: Piliocolobus badius, Piliocolobus bouvieri, Piliocolobus epieni, 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

Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore

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

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