COL·VQ4FTspeciesThe Nature Library · Catalogue of Life, 2026

Colobus congoensis — (c) Martin Royele/Royele Safaris، بعض الحقوق محفوظة (CC BY) · iNaturalist. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

(c) Martin Royele/Royele Safaris، بعض الحقوق محفوظة (CC BY) · iNaturalist. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Likweli

Colobus congoensis J. Hart, Amboko, Arenson, Horton, Coates, Kapale, Koko, T. Hart, Gilbert, Sargis & Detwiler, 2026

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from: Africa

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Colobus congoensis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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References

Hart, John A., Junior D. Amboko, Julia L. Arenson, Emma R. Horton, Kathryn F. Coates, et al. (2026). Likweli: A remarkable new species of Colobus monkey from the Lomami National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo. PLoS One, Vol. 21, No. 7: E0349857.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.