Miss Waldron's red colobus

Miss Waldron's red colobus[1]

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Piliocolobus
Species:
P. waldronae
Binomial name
Piliocolobus waldronae
(Hayman, 1936)
Miss Waldron's red colobus historic range shown in red

Miss Waldron's red colobus (Piliocolobus waldronae)[1] is a species of the red colobus native to West Africa.[3][4] It had previously been described as a subspecies of the western red colobus, P. badius. It has not been officially sighted since 1978 and was considered extinct in 2000. However, new evidence suggests that a very small number of these monkeys may be living in the southeast corner of Côte d'Ivoire. The IUCN Red List notes Miss Waldron's red colobus as critically endangered.[2]

Miss Waldron's red colobus was discovered in December 1933 by Willoughby P. Lowe, a British Museum (Natural History) collector[5] who had shot eight specimens of the animal. Robert William Hayman named it after a fellow museum employee, Miss Fanny Waldron, who assisted in the expedition where Lowe collected the eight specimens.

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  2. ^ a b Oates, J. F.; Struhsaker, T. & McGraw, S. (2019). "Piliocolobus waldronae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T18248A92650711. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T18248A92650711.en. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  3. ^ Zinner, D.; Fickenscher, G.H.; Roos, C. (2013). Mittermeier, Russell A.; Rylands, Anthony B.; Wilson, Don E. (eds.). Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Volume 3, Primates. Lynx. pp. 705–706. ISBN 978-8496553897.
  4. ^ Groves, C.P. (2016). "Species concepts and conservation". In Wich, Serge A.; Marshall, Andrew J. (eds.). An Introduction to Primate Conservation. pp. 45–47. ISBN 9780198703396.
  5. ^ "Natural History Museum: Search Results". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 November 2019.