Etymology

Miss Waldron's red colobus

Today it means: Piliocolobus waldronae, a red colobus native to West Africa. Full definition →

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The story

Discovered in December 1933 by Willoughby P. Lowe, who named it after a fellow museum employee, Miss Fanny Waldron, a colleague on the expedition.

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