"Colobus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of Old World monkeys, subfamily COLOBINAE, family CERCOPITHECIDAE, that inhabits the forests of Africa. It consists of eight species: C. angolensis (Angolan colobus), C. badius or C. rufomitratus (Red or Bay colobus), C. guereza (Guereza or Eastern black-and-white colobus), C. kirkii (Kirk's colobus), C. polykomos (King colobus or Western black-and-white colobus), C. satanas (Black colobus), and C. verus (Olive colobus). Some authors recognize Procolobus as a separate genus and then the olive colobus is recognized as the species P. verus.
| Descriptor ID |
D003104
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.801.400.112.199.150.150
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| Concept/Terms |
Colobus- Colobus
- Monkey, Colobus
- Colobus Monkey
- Colobus Monkeys
- Monkeys, Colobus
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