Black-headed night monkey

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Black-headed night monkey[1]
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Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Aotidae
Genus: Aotus
Species:
A. nigriceps
Binomial name
Aotus nigriceps
(Dollman, 1909)
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Black-headed night monkey range

The black-headed night monkey (Aotus nigriceps) is a night monkey species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru.[3] The A. nigriceps in Peru were notably inhabiting areas that were degraded, and often these areas were disturbed either by human activities or natural occurrences in the ecosystem.[4]

Names[]

It is called ausisiti in the Kwaza language of Rondônia, Brazil,[5] and nu’nu’ in the Shawi language of Peru.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ 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. pp. 140–141. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ Shanee, S.; Alves, S.L.; Calouro, A.M.; Lynch Alfaro, J.W.; Romero-Valenzuela, D.; Messias, M.R.; Röhe, F.; Ravetta, A.L. (2021). "Aotus nigriceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T41542A190455194. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T41542A190455194.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  3. ^ International), Russell A. Mittermeier (Conservation; Urbani, Bernardo; Link, Andrés (26 January 2015). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Aotus griseimembra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  4. ^ Helenbrook, William. D.; Wilkinson, Madison L.; Suarez, Jessica A. (March 2020). "Habitat use, fruit consumption, and population density of the black-headed night monkey, Aotus nigriceps, in southeastern Peru". Acta Amazonica. 50 (1): 37–43. doi:10.1590/1809-4392201900172. ISSN 1809-4392.
  5. ^ Manso, Laura Vicuña Pereira. 2013. Dicionário da língua Kwazá. M.A. dissertation. Guajará-Mirim: Federal University of Rondônia.
  6. ^ Rojas-Berscia, Luis Miguel. 2019. From Kawapanan to Shawi: Topics in language variation and change. Doctoral dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen.


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