Black-and-white colobus are Old World monkeys of the genus Colobus and are closely related to the red colobus monkeys of genus Piliocolobus. The word "colobus" comes from Greek ekolobóse "he cut short" and is so named because its thumb is a stump.

There are five species of this monkey, with at least eight subspecies:

• Genus Colobus
• Black Colobus, Colobus satanas
• Gabon Black Colobus, Colobus satanas anthracinus
• Bioko Black Colobus, Colobus satanas satanas
• Angola Colobus, Colobus angolensis
• Colobus angolensis angolensis
• Colobus angolensis cottoni
• Adolf Friedrich's Angola Colobus or Ruwenzori Black-and-white Colobus, Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii
• Colobus angolensis cordieri
• Prigogine's Angola Colobus, Colobus angolensis prigoginei
• Peter's Angolan Colobus or Tanzanian Black-and-white Colobus, Colobus angolensis palliatus
• King Colobus, Colobus polykomos
• Ursine Colobus, Colobus vellerosus
• Mantled Guereza, Colobus guereza

References

External links

• Colobus Monkey: Wildlife summary from the African Wildlife Foundation
• Primate Info Net Colobus Factsheets