Colobus guereza

Ruppell, 1835

Mantled Colobus

Figure 1. Photograph by B. Stanley.

Figure 2. FMNH 31163. Photograph by R. Banasiak.

Type Description:

Neue Wirbelt. Fauna Abyssin. Gehorig. Saugeth., p. 1

Type Locality:

Ethiopia, Gojjam and Kulla.

Measurements:

Total length: 1220-1660 mm

Head and body: 600-750 mm

Tail length: 740-830 mm

Weight: 13-23 kg

Distribution:

Ranging from lowland tropical rainforests, upper regions of montane forests, riverine galleries and evergreen thicket forests, Colobus guereza, has a scattered distribution from the Cameroons and Gabon to Ethiopia and northern 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, 1:162-175.
2. Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals, AP Natural World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, p. 29-30.
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.