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. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M, eds. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 151–152. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
  2. Stevenson, P., Link, A., Di Fiore, A., de la Torre, S. & Boubli, J.-P. (2008). "Lagothrix poeppigii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 19 January 2012.

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