Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Howler
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
)
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
)
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
)
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
)
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
)
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
)
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
)
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Mammalia
(
)
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Subclass:
Theriiformes
(
)
- (Rowe, 1988) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Infraclass:
Holotheria
(
)
- (Wible et al., 1995) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Superlegion:
Trechnotheria
(
)
- McKenna, 1975
- Legion:
Cladotheria
(
)
- McKenna, 1975
- Sublegion:
Zatheria
(
)
- McKenna, 1975
- Infralegion:
Tribosphenida
(
)
- (McKenna, 1975) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Supercohort:
Theria
(
)
- (Parker & Haswell, 1897) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Cohort:
Placentalia
(
)
- (Owen, 1837) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Magnorder:
Epitheria
(
)
- (Mckenna, 1975) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Superorder:
Preptotheria
(
)
- (McKenna, 1975) McKenna, in Stucky & McKenna, in Benton, ed., 1993
- Grandorder:
Archonta
(
)
- (Gregory, 1910) McKenna, 1975
- Order:
Primates
(
)
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Suborder:
Haplorrhini
(
)
- Pocock, 1918
- Infraorder:
Simiiformes
(
)
- Haeckel, 1866
- Parvorder:
Platyrrhini
(
)
- É. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1812
- Superfamily:
Callitrichoidea
(
)
- (Gray, 1821) Mckenna & Bell, 1997:351
- Family:
Atelidae
(
)
- (Gray, 1825) Tattersall, Delson & Van Couvering, 1988
- Subfamily:
Alouattinae
(
)
- Tribe:
Alouattini
(
)
- Genus:
Alouatta
(
)
- Lacépède, 1799
- Specific name:
villosa
- Gray, 1845
- Scientific name: - Alouatta villosa Gray, 1845
- Specific name:
villosa
- Gray, 1845
- Genus:
Alouatta
(
- Tribe:
Alouattini
(
- Subfamily:
Alouattinae
(
- Family:
Atelidae
(
- Superfamily:
Callitrichoidea
(
- Parvorder:
Platyrrhini
(
- Infraorder:
Simiiformes
(
- Suborder:
Haplorrhini
(
- Order:
Primates
(
- Grandorder:
Archonta
(
- Superorder:
Preptotheria
(
- Magnorder:
Epitheria
(
- Cohort:
Placentalia
(
- Supercohort:
Theria
(
- Infralegion:
Tribosphenida
(
- Sublegion:
Zatheria
(
- Legion:
Cladotheria
(
- Superlegion:
Trechnotheria
(
- Infraclass:
Holotheria
(
- Subclass:
Theriiformes
(
- Class:
Mammalia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Alouatta
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 32 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. arctoidea (Ursine Howler Monkey) · A. belezebul (Red-Handed Howler Monkey) · A. belzebul (Black-And-Red Howler Monkey) · A. belzebul belzebul (Black-And-Red Howler Monkey) · A. belzebul discolor (Red-Handed Howling Monkey) · A. belzebul ululata (Red-Handed Howling Monkey) · A. caraya (Black-And-Gold Howler Monkey) · A. coibensis (Coiba Island Howling Monkey) · A. discolor (Spix's Red-Handed Howler Monkey) · A. fusca (Brown Howler) · A. fusca fusca (Brown Howler Monkey) · A. guariba (Brown Howler Monkey) · A. guariba clamitans (Southern Brown Howler Monkey) · A. guariba guariba (Northern Brown Howler Monkey) · A. juara (Juru? Red Howler Monkey) · A. macconnelli (Guianan Red Howler Monkey) · A. nigerrima (Black Howler Monkey) · A. palliata (Golden-Mantled Howling Monkey) · A. palliata aequatorialis (Ecuadorian Mantled Howler Monkey) · A. palliata coibensis (Coiba Island Howler Monkey) · A. palliata mexicana (Mexican Howler Monkey) · A. palliata palliata (Golden Mantled Howler Monkey) · A. palliata trabeata (Azuero Howler Monkey) · A. pigra (Yucat?n Black Howler Monkey) · A. puruensis (Pur?s Red Howler Monkey) · A. sara (Bolivian Red Howling Monkey) · A. seniculus (Colombian Red Howler Monkey) · A. seniculus insulanus (Trinidad Howling Monkey) · A. seniculus juara (Juru) · A. seniculus seniculus (Colombian Red Howling Monkey) · A. ululata (Maranh?o Red-Handed Howler Monkey) · A. villosa (Howler)
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Further Reading
- A check list of mammals of the North American continent, the West Indies and the neighboring seas. Chicago, 1905. url p. 532, p. 532, p. 548.
- A hand-book to the primates / by Henry O. Forbes. London: E. Lloyd, 1896-1897. url p. 199, p. 199, p. 254.
- A hand-book to the primates, by Henry O. Forbes. London: W.H. Allen & Co., Ltd., 1894. url p. 199, p. 199.
- A review of the primates / by Daniel Giraud Elliot. New York, U.S.A.: American Museum of Natural History, 1912 [i.e. 1913]. url .
- A year of Costa Rican natural history, by Amelia Smith Calvert. .. and Philip Powell Calvert. .. with maps and illustrations. New York, The Macmillan company, 1917. url p. 460, p. 553.
- Advances in the study of mammalian behavior / edited by John F. Eisenberg and Devra G. Kleiman. [Stillwater, Okla.]: American Society of Mammalogists; 1983. url p. 339, p. 650, p. 655.
- Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 5, October 1990: programme on man and the biosphere (MAB) IUCN url p. 108.
- Breviora. 1973 Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, [1952- url p. 11, p. 13.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 168, p. 381.
- Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 97.
- Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 58.
- Checklist of mammals listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 21, p. 17.
- Ectoparasites of Panama. Rupert L. Wenzel [and] Vernon J. Tipton, editors. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1966. url p. 210, p. 774, p. 812.
- Field Museum of Natural History bulletin. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, [1930]-c1990. url p. 6.
- IUCN Directory of Neotropical Protected Areas IUCN url p. 178, p. 180, p. 181, p. 204, p. 268.
- List of North American land mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911; by Gerrit S. Miller, jr. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1912. url p. 381.
- MAB Information System: Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 4, October 1986: Supplement January 1988 UNESCO, IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url .
- Protozoan parasites of domestic animals and of man. Minneapolis, Burgess Pub. Co.[1961] url p. 395.
- Publication. Field Columbian Museum. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1895-1909. url , , p. 532, p. 548, p. 7, p. 749, p. 749, p. 778, p. 778, p. vii.
- Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 11, p. 31.
- Systematic results of the study of North American land mammals to the close of the year 1900, by Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., and James A. G. Rehn. Boston, Society of Natural History, 1901. url p. 297, p. 297.
- The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas IUCN url p. 157.
- The Ecology of arboreal folivores: a symposium held at the Conservation and Research Center, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, May 29-31, 1975 / Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978. url p. 12, p. 177, p. 178, p. 180, p. 184, p. 548, p. 551, p. 559.
- The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: threatened mammalian taxa of the Americas and the Australasian zoogeographic region (excluding Cetacea) IUCN url p. 171, p. 171, p. 196, p. 196, p. 23, p. 23, p. 28, p. 28, p. 30, p. 34, p. 34, p. 505, p. 505.
- The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies. 4 1904 Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, 1904. url p. 749, p. 778, list of plates, page vii.
- University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 14 1963 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 173.
- World Checklist of Threatened Mammals JNCC url p. 28.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 30, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 6867619
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16189033
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 605973
