Hershkovitz's Night Monkey

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Hershkovitz's Night Monkey[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Aotidae
Genus: Aotus
Species: A. hershkovitzi
Binomial name
Aotus hershkovitzi
Ramirez-Cerquera, 1983

Hershkovitz's Night Monkey (Aotus hershkovitzi) is a night monkey species found in the Colombian Andes with a distinctive 2n=58 karyotype.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 140. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ Defler, T.R., Bueno, M.L., & Hernández-Camacho, J.I. (2001). "Taxonomic Status of Aotus hershkovitzi: Its Relationship to Aotus lemurinus lemurinus". Neotropical Primates 9 (2): 37–52.