Alouatta arctoidea
Cabrera, 1940
Ursine Red Howler
Taxonomy
Subclass | : Theria |
Infraclass | : Placentalia |
Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
Order | : Primates |
Suborder | : Haplorhini |
Infraorder | : Simiiformes |
Parvorder | : Platyrrhini |
Family | : Atelidae |
Subfamily | : Alouattinae |
Genus | : Alouatta |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Authority citation
Cabrera, Á. 1940. Los nombres científicos de algunos monos americanos. Ciencia 9:402-405.
Original name as described
Alouatta seniculus arctoidea
Other common names
Caracas Howler Monkey · Ursine Howler Monkey · Trinidadian Howler Monkey · Trinidad Howling Monkey
Type material
MNHN-ZM-2007-1477
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/2007-1477Type locality
Venezuela. Restricted by Cabrera in 1957 to the valley of Aragua, state of Aragua, near Caracas.
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Colombia? · Venezuela · Trinidad and Tobago
Taxonomy notes
split from A. seniculus
Taxonomy notes citation
Stanyon, R., Tofanelli, S., Morescalchi, M. A., Agoramoorthy, G., Ryder, O. A. and Wienberg, J. 1995. Cytogenetic analysis shows extensive genomic rearrangements between red howler (Alouatta seniculus Linnaeus) subspecies. American Journal of Primatology 35: 171-183. · Urbani, B., Boubli, J. & Cortes-Ortíz, L. 2018. Alouatta arctoidea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T136486A17926227. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T136486A17926227.en. Downloaded on 06 October 2020.IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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