Silvery woolly monkey

Silvery woolly monkey[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Atelidae
Genus: Lagothrix
Species: L. poeppigii
Binomial name
Lagothrix poeppigii
Schinz, 1844
Silvery Woolly Monkey range

The silvery woolly monkey (Lagothrix poeppigii), also known as Poeppig's woolly monkey, is a woolly monkey species from South America. Named after the German zoologist Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, it is found in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.

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. 151-152. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100417. 
  2. ^ Stevenson, P., Link, A., Di Fiore, A., de la Torre, S. & Boubli, J.-P. (2008). Lagothrix poeppigii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 3 January 2009.

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