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

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scientific name	Piliocolobus gordonorum Matschie, 1900
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Piliocolobus gordonorum Matschie, 1900 View in CoL

Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, p. 186

Current valid name: Piliocolobus gordonorum Matschie, 1900 View in CoL

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.