Preuss's Red Colobus

Taxobox
name = Preuss's Red ColobusMSW3 Groves|pages=170]
status = CR
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = [IUCN2007 | assessors = Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group | year = 2000 | title = Piliocolobus preussi | id = 4227 | downloaded = 2008-03-30]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cercopithecidae
subfamilia = Colobinae
genus = "Piliocolobus"
species = "P. preussi"
binomial = "Piliocolobus preussi"
binomial_authority = (Matschie, 1900)

Preuss's Red Colobus ("Piliocolobus preussi") is a species of red colobus monkey from Lake Barombi Mbo in Cameroon. It had once been considered a subspecies of the Western Red Colobus monkey.cite book|title=The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates|author=Rowe, Noel|year=1996|page=175] Like other colobus monkeys it is primarily a leaf eater. Preuss's Red Colobus has a black head, a black back ticked with orange, and bright red tail, limbs and cheeks. It lives in tall primary forests near water in Cameroon.

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