Black-and-white colobus
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[Photo] Mantled Guereza (Colobus guereza). Guereza Colobus (Colobus guereza). Kibale national Park, Uganda. Photographer: Duncan Wright (User:Sabine's Sunbird http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sabine%27s_Sunbird), 01/2004

Black-and-white colobus are of Old World monkeys of the genus Colobus and are closely related to the red colobus monkeys of genus Piliocolobus. The word "colobus" comes from Greek ekolob??se "he cut short" and is so named because its thumb is a stump.

Genus Colobus

Black Colobus, Colobus satanas
- Gabon Black Colobus, Colobus satanas anthracinus
- Bioko Black Colobus, Colobus satanas satanas
Angola Colobus, Colobus angolensis
- Colobus angolensis angolensis
- Colobus angolensis cottoni
- Adolf Friedrich's Angola Colobus or Ruwenzori Black-and-white Colobus, Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii
- Colobus angolensis cordieri
- Prigogine's Angola Colobus, Colobus angolensis prigoginei
- Peter's Angolan Colobus or Tanzanian Black-and-white Colobus, Colobus angolensis palliatus
King Colobus, Colobus polykomos
Ursine Colobus, Colobus vellerosus
Mantled Guereza, Colobus guereza

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