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--> GENUS Alouatta
SPECIES Alouatta caraya
Author: | Humboldt, 1812. | Citation: | Rec. Observ. Zool., 1: 355. | Common Name: | Black Howler | Type Locality: | Paraguay. | Distribution: | N Argentina to Mato Grosso (Brazil), Bolivia (see Anderson, 1997). | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | A. caraya species group. For the inclusion of straminea in this species, not in A. seniculus, see Rylands and Brandon-Jones (1988). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
barbatus (Spix, 1823) niger (É. Geoffroy, 1812) straminea (Humboldt, 1812)
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