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'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 ''ekolobóse'' "he cut short" and is so named because its thumb is a stump.
'Genus ''Colobus'' '

★ Black Colobus, ''Colobus satanas''

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★ Gabon Black Colobus, ''Colobus satanas anthracinus''

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★ Bioko Black Colobus, ''Colobus satanas satanas''

★ Angola Colobus, ''Colobus angolensis''

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★ ''Colobus angolensis angolensis''

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★ ''Colobus angolensis cottoni''

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★ Adolf Friedrich's Angola Colobus or Ruwenzori Black-and-white Colobus, ''Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii''

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★ ''Colobus angolensis cordieri''

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★ Prigogine's Angola Colobus, ''Colobus angolensis prigoginei''

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★ 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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★ Colobus Monkey: Wildlife summary from the African Wildlife Foundation

★ Primate Info Net ''Colobus'' Factsheets