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Overview:

Conservation Status

History:

• 1996-Lower Risk/least concern (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Justification

Relatively widespread and not considered threatened. Assessed as Least Concern.

Taxonomy

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 30-Jul-2002

Physical Description

Family Fabaceae:

The Fabaceae are herbs, vines, shrubs, trees, and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants, numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate, nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple. The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual, actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes, spikes, or heads. The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united, sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate, comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells, and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [Carr]

Distribution

Range and Population

Regarding the occurrence of this species in Colombia, according to Defler et al. (2003) Aotus nancymai and Aotus nigriceps observed in captivity by P. Hershkovitz and J. I. Hernández-Camacho in Leticia, and reported in Defler (1994), have never been confirmed in the wild for Colombia. There is some traffic in Aotus in Leticia, with animals being taken from the other side of the Río Amazonas to Colombia for sale to the local primate laboratory. There they are erroneously treated as being from Colombia (since it is illegal to purchase fauna from either Brazil or from Peru). It is most probable that the specimens examined by Hershkovitz and Hernández-Camacho were purchased animals from the other side of the river.

South America

Similar Species

Members of the genus Aotus:

There are approximately 72 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: A. azarae (Azara's Night Monkey) · A. azarae azarae (Azara's Night Monkey) · A. azarae boliviensis (Douroucoulis) · A. azarae infulatus (Feline Night Monkey) · A. azarai (Azara's Night Monkey) · A. azarai azarai · A. azarai boliviensis · A. boliviensis · A. brumbacki (Brumback's Night Monkey) · A. carinata · A. coccinea · A. cordifolia · A. diffusa · A. dillwynioides · A. dindensis · A. drummondii · A. ericoides (Common Aotus) · A. ferruginea · A. genistoides · A. gracilis · A. gracillima · A. gracillima var. gracillima · A. gracillima var. uncinata · A. gracillima var. unicinata · A. gularis · A. hershkovitzi (Hershkovitz's Night Monkey) · A. infulatus (Feline Night Monkey) · A. intermedia · A. lanigera · A. lanigera var. incana · A. lanigera var. lanigera · A. lanius · A. lemurinus (Colombian Night Monkey) · A. lemurinus brumbacki (Brumback's Night Monkey) · A. lemurinus griseimembra (Grey-Legged Night Monkey) · A. lemurinus lemurinus (Colombian Night Monkey) · A. lemurinus zonalis · A. miconax (Andean Night Monkey) · A. microdon · A. mollis · A. nancymaae (Ma's Night Monkey) · A. nigriceps (Black-Headed Night Monkey) · A. passerinoides · A. phylicoides · A. preissii · A. preissii var. leiophylla · A. preissii var. preissii · A. procumbens · A. pseudoprocumbens · A. roberti · A. rufipes · A. senex · A. subglauca (Wild Wallflower) · A. subglauca var. filiformis · A. subglauca var. subglauca · A. subspinescens · A. tenuis · A. tietkensii · A. trivirgatus (Douroucouli) · A. trivirgatus boliviensis · A. trivirgatus griseimembra (Northern Night Monkey) · A. trivirgatus gularis · A. trivirgatus infulatus · A. trivirgatus lemurinus · A. trivirgatus trivirgatus · A. villosa var. ericoides · A. villosa var. ferruginea · A. villosa var. subspinescens · A. villosa var. villosa · A. virgata · A. vociferans (Night Monkey) · A. wuerthii

Bibliography

• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Defler, T.R. and Bueno, M.L. 2003. Karyological guidelines for Aotus taxonomy. Abstracts: 26th Annual Conference of the American Society of Primatologists, 30 July - 2 August 2003, Calgary, Canada. In press.
• Defler, T.R., Bueno, M.L. and Hernández-Camacho, J.I. 2001. The taxonomic status of Aotus hershkovitzi: Its relationship to Aotus lemurinus lemurinus. Neotropical Primates 9(2): 37-52.
• Defler, T.R., Rodríguez-M., J.V. and Hernández-Camacho, J.I. 2003. Conservation priorities for Colombian primates. Primate Conservation (19): 10-18.
• Eisenberg, J.F. 1989. Mammals of the Neotropics the Northern Neotropics, Volume 1. Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London.
• Ford, S.M. 1994. Taxonomy and distribution of the owl monkey. In: J.F. Baer, R.E. Weller and I. Kakoma (eds). Aotus: The Owl Monkey. pp.1-57. Academic Press, San Diego.
• Groves, C.P. 2001. The Taxonomy of Primates. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
• Hershkovitz, P. 1983. Two new species of night monkeys, genus Aotus (Cebidae, Platyrrhini): a preliminary report on Aotus taxonomy. American Journal of Primatology 4(3): 209-243.
• IUCN. 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 18 November 2003.
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC, USA. xviii + 1207. ISBN: 1-56098-217-9.
• Wright, P.C. 1981. The night monkeys, genus Aotus. In: A.F. Coimbra-Filho and R.A. Mittermeier (eds). Ecology and behavior of neotropical primates. Vol. 1, pp 211-240. Academia Brasileira de Ciências, Rio de Janeiro.

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Notes

Contributors:

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 11, 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 05, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• Heymann, E.W., Defler, T.D., Rodriguez-M., J.V. & Brazil Threatened Species Workshop participants 2003. Aotus nancymaae. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.

Data Sources:

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:

• Field Museum: Mammal specimens

Identifiers:

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 572945
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 345186
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 128997