Colobus angolensis

P. Sclater, 1860

Angolan Colobus

Figure 1. Photograph by B. Stanley.

Figure 2. FMNH 27276. Photograph by R. Banasiak.

Type Description:

Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860:245

Type Locality:

Angola, 300 mi. (483 km) inland from Bembe.

Measurements:

Total length: 1220-1660 mm

Head and body: 600-750 mm

Tail length: 740-830 mm

Weight: 13-23 kg

Distribution:

Concentrated in the lowland and montane forests at elevations from up to 3,000 m, Colobus angolensis is distributed throughout the Dem. Rep. of Congo and scattered through Uganda and east and south Tanzania. (Kingdon, 1984, 1997)

Figure 3.

Key Reference:

1. Kingdon, J. 1984. East African mammals: An atlas of evolution in Africa. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1:163-175.
2. Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals, AP Natural World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, p. 27-28.
3. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1:569, 604-606.
4. Swynnerton, G. H., and R. W. Hayman. 1951. A checklist of the land mammals of the Tanganyika Territory and the Zanzibar Protectorate. Journal of the East African Natural History Society, 20(6):274-392.