Nancy Ma's night monkey

Nancy Ma's night monkey[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Aotidae
Genus: Aotus
Species: A. nancymaae
Binomial name
Aotus nancymaae
Hershkovitz, 1983
Nancy Ma's Night Monkey range

Nancy Ma's night monkey (Aotus nancymaae) is a night monkey species from South America. It is found in Brazil and Peru.

It is known in medical research as a model organism for studying the Duffy antigen.

References

  1. Groves, C.P. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 140. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
  2. Maldonado, A.; Shanee, S.; Defler, T.R. & Roncancio, N. (2017). "Aotus nancymaae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 4 June 2017.


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