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Semliki red colobus

species of mammal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ22675260 ↗
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The Semliki red colobus (Piliocolobus semlikiensis) is a type of red colobus monkey from central Africa. Historically it has been treated as a subspecies of the Central African red colobus (P. foai) but more recent taxonomies generally treat it as a separate species.

The Semliki red colobus lives in ironwood forest in a portion of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo between the Semliki River valley and the Ruwenzori Mountains. It may also live in a small area of Uganda.

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This entry incorporates text from “Semliki red colobus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.