Nancy Ma's Night Monkey (Aotus nancymaae)
Primate Factsheets: Owl monkey (Aotus)
: noisy night monkey, Spix's night monkey, or Spix's owl monkey
Aotus nancymaae
The Genus
Aotus
used to contain only one species (
Aotus
trivirgatus
) with ten subspecies, but in 1983, all ten subspecies
were elevated to species level and subsequent genetic work has refined
the
taxonomy
even more (Groves 2001). Within the genus, there are two
groups of owl monkeys, the gray-necked (
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