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Taxon: Genus Colobus Illiger, 1811 - black and white colobus monkeys (mammal)
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Authorship

Original name:  Illiger, C. 1811. Prodr. Syst. Mamm. Avium: 69.
Original rank:  loc. cit.
Original spelling:  loc. cit.

Types

Type of: Colobina (Subtribe) Jerdon, 1867 Ref: E. Delson et al. (eds.), 2000: xxvi. [inferred]
Type of: Colobinae (Subfamily) Jerdon, 1867 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 344. [inferred]
Type of: Colobini (Tribe) Blyth, 1875 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 344. [new] [inferred]
Type, by synonymy: Colobus polykomos (Zimmermann, 1780)

Variants

Different spelling: Colobos (Genus) Brookes, 1828 Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]: [19 Dec 2008].

Synonyms

Accepted name: Procolobus (Genus) Rochebrune, 1887 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
Including: Procolobus (Genus) Rochebrune, 1887 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: kortduimapen
: franjeapen
: guereza's

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: black and white colobus monkeys
: colobus monkeys
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