Aotus nancymai
Hershkovitz, 1983
Ma's Night Monkey
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Primates |
| Suborder | : Haplorhini |
| Infraorder | : Simiiformes |
| Parvorder | : Platyrrhini |
| Family | : Aotidae |
| Genus | : Aotus |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005
Authority citation
Hershkovitz, P. 1983. Two new species of night monkeys, genus Aotus (Cebidae, platyrrhini): A preliminary report on Aotus taxonomy. American Journal of Primatology 4(3):209-243.
Authority publication link
https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.1350040302Original name as described
Aotus nancymai
Other common names
Nancy Ma's Night Monkey · Nancy Ma's Owl Monkey
Type material
FMNH:Mamm:122776
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
right bank of Río Samiria above Estación Pithecia, Reserva Nacional Pacaya-Samiria, Loreto, Peru, elevation c.130 m.
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Brazil · Peru · Colombia
Taxonomy notes
the name 'nancymaae' is often used for this species, but this is considered an unjustified emendation of the original spelling, 'nancymai', which is used here
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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