Temminck's red colobus

Temminck's red colobus (Piliocolobus badius temminckii) is a type of red colobus monkey from the Gambia, Casamance, Guinea-Bissau and northwestern Guinea. It has historically been regarded as a subspecies of the western red colobus (Piliocolobus badius),[1] and the Integrated Taxonomic Information System and Mammal Diversity Database both maintain this classification,[3][4] but many less recent taxonomies classify it as a separate species (Piliocolobus temminckii).[5][6]

Temminck's red colobus[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Piliocolobus
Species:
P. badius
Subspecies:
P. b. temminckii
Trinomial name
Piliocolobus badius temminckii
(Kuhl, 1820)
Temmick's red colobus range shown in yellow
Synonyms

Piliocolobus temminckii

Temminck's red colobus generally lives in dry deciduous and gallery forests. In Senegal it also lives in savannah.[5] No other red colobus lives in savannah.[5] The use of savannah and open areas may be a recent adaptation to deforestation, since researchers in the 1970s always found Temminck's red colobus in tall, dense forest.[5] Temminck's red colobus living in savannahs often associate with green monkeys, and sometimes also associate with patas monkeys and bushbucks for defense against predators.[5][7] Temminck's red colobus differs from the Western red colobus in that the Western red colobus lives in rainforest rather than dry forest and savannah, which may explain differences in behavior.[6]

The majority of its diet consists of fruit and leaves. Seeds, flowers, buds, bark and nuts account for most of the rest of the diet.[7]

Temminck's red colobus is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[2] Primary threats include deforestation and hunting.[7]

References
  1. Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 169. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
  2. Minhós, T.; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Bersacola, E.; Galat, G.; Galat-Luong, A.; Mayhew, M.; Starin, E.D. (2020). "Piliocolobus badius ssp. temminckii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T18247A92648587. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T18247A92648587.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  3. "Piliocolobus badius temminckii". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  4. "Piliocolobus badius (Kerr, 1792)". Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  5. Zinner, D.; Fickenscher, G.H.; Roos, C. (2013). Mittermeier, Russell A.; Rylands, Anthony B.; Wilson, Don E. (eds.). Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Volume 3, Primates. Lynx. pp. 705–706. ISBN 978-8496553897.
  6. Groves, C.P. (2016). "Species concepts and conservation". In Wich, Serge A.; Marshall, Andrew J. (eds.). An Introduction to Primate Conservation. pp. 45–47. ISBN 9780198703396.
  7. Galat-Luong, A.; et al. (2016). Rowe, Noel; Myers, Marc (eds.). All the World's Primates. Pogonias Press. pp. 547–549. ISBN 9781940496061.
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