Piliocolobus gordonorum Matschie, 1900

Turni, Hendrik, 2024, Type specimens of Primates (Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Zootaxa 5543 (2), pp. 151-194 : 178

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5543.2.1

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0399C768-7A4F-FF9B-FAC5-FB8BFE479CF3

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scientific name

Piliocolobus gordonorum Matschie, 1900
status

 

Piliocolobus gordonorum Matschie, 1900 View in CoL

Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin , p. 186

Current valid name: Piliocolobus gordonorum Matschie, 1900

Holotype: ZMB 86983, incomplete skin; “Utshungwe-Gebirge” [ Udzungwa Mountains ], “Uhehe Gebiet” [formerly the territory of the Hehe people], southeast of Iringa, Tanzania; collected by von Gordon, undated.

Comment: Matschie mentioned that the Gordon brothers had collected two specimens. The skulls were lost during transport, and the two skins were damaged. One skin ended up in the Berlin Museum ; the whereabouts of the second skin are unknown .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Primates

Family

Cercopithecidae

Genus

Piliocolobus

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