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SPECIES Aotus trivirgatus
Author: | Humboldt, 1811. | Citation: | Rec. Observ. Zool., 1: 306. | Common Name: | Three-striped Night Monkey | Type Locality: | Venezuela, Duida Range, Rio Casiquiare. | Distribution: | Venezuela, south of Rio Orinoco, south to Brazil north of Rios Negro and Amazon. | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Gray-necked species group. Long the only species recognized in the genus; divided into 9 species by Hershkovitz (1983), revised further by Ford (1994) and Groves (2001c). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
commersonii (Vigors and Horsfield, 1829) duruculi (Lesson, 1840) felinus (Spix, 1823) humboldti Illiger in Humboldt, 1812 rufus (Lesson, 1840)
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