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Piliocolobus

Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

Taxonomy

Piliocolobus was named by Rochebrune (1887). It is extant.

It was assigned to Colobinae by Wilson and Reeder (2005); and to Cercopithecidae by Burgin et al. (2018).

Species

P. badius (syn. Simia ferruginea), P. bouvieri, P. epieni, P. foai, P. gordonorum, P. kirkii, P. langi, P. oustaleti, P. parmentieri, P. pennantii, P. preussi, P. rufomitratus, P. semlikiensis, P. temminckii, P. tephrosceles, P. tholloni, P. waldronae

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1887	Piliocolobus Rochebrune
2005	Piliocolobus Wilson and Reeder
2018	Piliocolobus Burgin et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Euarchonta
order	Primates
infraorder	Haplorhini	(Pocock 1918)
—	Anthropoidea	(Mivart 1864)
infraorder	Catarrhini	Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
superfamily	Cercopithecoidea
family	Cercopithecidae
subfamily	Colobinae	Jerdon 1867
genus	Piliocolobus	Rochebrune 1887

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Piliocolobus Rochebrune 1887

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Piliocolobus badius Kerr 1792 [western red colobus]

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Invalid names: Simia ferruginea Shaw 1800 [synonym]

Piliocolobus bouvieri Rochebrune 1886

Piliocolobus epieni Grubb and Powell 1999

Piliocolobus foai de Pousargues 1899

Piliocolobus gordonorum Matschie 1900

Piliocolobus kirkii Gray 1868

Piliocolobus langi Allen 1925

Piliocolobus oustaleti Trouessart 1906