Brown woolly monkey

Brown woolly monkey[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Atelidae
Genus: Lagothrix
Species: L. lagotricha
Binomial name
Lagothrix lagotricha
(Humboldt, 1812)
Brown Woolly Monkey range

The brown woolly monkey or common woolly monkey or Humboldt's Woolly Monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha) is a woolly monkey from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. It lives in groups of 2 to 70 individuals, usually splitting the group into smaller subgroups while in activity.

Many published sources give the systematic name as L. lagothricha, because Fooden [3] chose that spelling as the correct spelling, when he revised the genus. Von Humboldt used both spellings in his original description, so the International Zoological Code permits a first reviser to choose the spelling that is to be considered the "correct spelling".

References

  1. ^ Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 152. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100415. 
  2. ^ Palacios, E., Boubli, J.-P., Stevenson, P., Di Fiore, A. & de la Torre, S. (2008). Lagothrix lagotricha. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 8 November 2008.
  3. ^ Fooden, J. 1963. A revision of the woolly monkey (genus Lagothrix) Journal of Mammalogy 44(2): 213-247