Semliki red colobus
Species of Old World monkey
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The Semliki red colobus (Piliocolobus semlikiensis) is a type of red colobus monkey from central Africa. Historically it has been treated as a subspecies of the Central African red colobus (P. foai)[2] but more recent taxonomies generally treat it as a separate species.[3][4]
| Semliki red colobus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Genus: | Piliocolobus |
| Species: | P. semlikiensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Piliocolobus semlikiensis (Colyn, 1991) | |
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| Semliki red colobus range shown in dark blue | |
| Synonyms | |
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Piliocolobus foai semlikiensis | |
The Semliki red colobus lives in ironwood forest in a portion of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo between the Semliki River valley and the Ruwenzori Mountains.[3] It may also live in a small area of Uganda.[4]