The Maranhão red-handed howler (Alouatta ululata) is an endangered species of howler monkey endemic to forests (for example Babaçu forests) in the northeastern Brazilian states of Ceará, Maranhão and Piauí.[1] It was previously thought to be a subspecies of the red-handed howler, but unlike that species, the Maranhão red-handed howler is strongly sexually dichromatic.[2]
Maranhão red-handed howler | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Atelidae |
Genus: | Alouatta |
Species: | A. ululata
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Binomial name | |
Alouatta ululata Elliot, 1912
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Maranhao Red-handed Howler range | |
Synonyms | |
Alouatta belzebul ululata |
References
edit- ^ a b de Oliveira, M.M. & Kierulff, M.C.M. (2008). "Alouatta ululata". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. IUCN: e.T918A13094890. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T918A13094890.en. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
- ^ Gregorin, R. (2006). (in Portuguese) Taxonomia e variação geográfica das espécies do gênero Alouatta Lacépède (Primates, Atelidae) no Brasil. Rev. Bras. Zool. 23(1).