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SPECIES Procolobus verus

Author:Van Beneden, 1838.
Citation:Bull. Acad. Sci. Belles-Letters Bruxelles, 5: 347.
Common Name:Olive Colobus
Type Locality:Africa.
Distribution:Sierra Leone to Togo; Idah Dist. (E Nigeria, see Menzies, 1970, for comments).
Status:CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).
Comments:Separated as a genus from Colobus by Dandelot (1974:37) and Corbet and Hill (1980:90).
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Synonyms:

    chrysurus (Gray, 1866)
    cristatus (Gray, 1866)
    olivaceus (Wagner, 1840)

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