Silvery woolly monkey

The silvery woolly monkey (Lagothrix poeppigii), also known as Poeppig's woolly monkey, is a woolly monkey species from South America. Named after the German zoologist Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, it is found in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.

Silvery woolly monkey[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Atelidae
Genus: Lagothrix
Species:
L. poeppigii
Binomial name
Lagothrix poeppigii
Schinz, 1844
Silvery woolly monkey range

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. pp. 151–152. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
  2. Stevenson, P.; Link, A.; Di Fiore, A.; de la Torre, S. & Boubli, J.-P. (2008). "Lagothrix poeppigii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T39927A10290256. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T39927A10290256.en. Retrieved 25 December 2017.


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