Common woolly monkey

Common woolly monkey
Common woolly monkey in La Vallée des Singes, France
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Atelidae
Genus: Lagothrix
Species:
L. lagothricha
Binomial name
Lagothrix lagothricha
(Humboldt, 1812)
Subspecies
Range of type subspecies, L. lagothrica lagothrica
Synonyms[2]
  • Lagothrix lagotricha (Humboldt, 1812)
  • Gastrimargus infumatus Spix, 1823
  • Lagothrix caparro Lesson, 1840
  • Lagothrix caroarensis Lonnberg, 1931
  • Lagothrix geoffroyi Pucheran, 1857
  • Lagothrix humboldtii É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812
  • Macaco barrigo Natterer, 1883

The common woolly monkey, brown woolly monkey, or Humboldt's woolly monkey[3] (Lagothrix lagothricha) is a woolly monkey from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela. It lives in groups of two to 70 individuals, usually splitting the group into smaller subgroups when active.

  1. ^ Stevenson, P.R.; Defler, T.R.; de la Torre, S.; Moscoso, P.; Palacios, E.; Ravetta, A.L.; Vermeer, J.; Link, A.; Urbani, B.; Cornejo, F.M.; Guzmán-Caro, D.C.; Shanee, S.; Mourthé, Í.; Muniz, C.C.; Wallace, R.B. & Rylands, A.B. (2021). "Lagothrix lagotricha". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021. IUCN: e.T160881218A192309103. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T160881218A192309103.en.
  2. ^ "Oldstyle id: c34625c16245785ce9b441b53e92475a". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands.
  3. ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 152. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.