Alouatta palliata

(J. E. Gray, 1849)

Mantled 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
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Gray, J.E. 1849-06-01. Description of two species of Mammalia from Caraccas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1848:138.

Original name as described

Mycetes palliatus

Other common names

Azuero Peninsula Howler · Coiba Island Howler · Ecuadorian Mantled Howler · South Pacific Blackish Howler · Golden-mantled Howler · Mexican Howler

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1848.10.26.1, BMNH:Mamm:1848.10.26.2, BMNH:Mamm:1848.11.10.1

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

Caracas, Venezuela. Restricted by Allen in 1910 to Lago Nicaragua, Nicaragua.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Mexico · Guatemala · Honduras · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Ecuador · Peru

Taxonomy notes

includes coibensis

Taxonomy notes citation

Cortés-Ortiz, L., Bermingham, E., Rico, C., Rodríguez-Luna, E., Sampaio, I. and Ruiz-García, M. 2003. Molecular systematics and biogeography of the Neotropical monkey genus, Alouatta. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26: 64-81. · Cortés-Ortiz, L., Rylands, A.B. and Mitermeier R.A. 2015. The taxonomy of howler monkeys: integrating old and new knowledge from morphological and genetic studies. In: Kowalewski MM, Garber PA, Cortes-Ortiz L, Urbani B, Youlatos D (ed.), Howler Monkeys: Adaptive Radiation, Systematics, and Morphology, pp. 55–84. Springer, New York, USA.

IUCN Red List status

Vulnerable

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