Bouvier's red colobus

Bouvier's red colobus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Piliocolobus
Species:
P. bouvieri
Binomial name
Piliocolobus bouvieri
Bouvier's red colobus range shown in purple (within the purple box)
Synonyms
  • Procolobus pennantii ssp. bouvieri (Rochebrune, 1887)
  • Colobus (Piliocolobus) likualae (Matschie, 1914)

Bouvier's red colobus (Piliocolobus bouvieri) is a species of colobus monkey rediscovered in the Republic of the Congo in 2015, after four decades without a confirmed sighting.

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