Silvery woolly monkey
The silvery woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha poeppigii), also known as Poeppig's woolly monkey or the red woolly monkey, is a subspecies of the common woolly monkey from South America. Named after the German zoologist Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, it is found in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.
| Silvery woolly monkey | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Atelidae |
| Genus: | Lagothrix |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | L. l. poeppigii |
| Trinomial name | |
| Lagothrix lagothricha poeppigii Schinz, 1844 | |
| Silvery woolly monkey range | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lagothrix poeppigii | |
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