Maranhão red-handed howler
| Maranhão red-handed howler | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| 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 | |
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Alouatta belzebul ululata | |
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]
Diet
The Maranhão red-handed howler is folivorous and frugivorous.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Fialho, M.S.; Jerusalinsky, L.; Ferreira, J.G.; Pinto, T.; Laroque, P.O.; Cortes-Ortíz, L.; Freire Filho, R. (2021). "Alouatta ululata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021 e.T918A190435652. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T918A190435652.en.
- ^ Gregorin, R. (2006). (in Portuguese) Taxonomia e variação geográfica das espécies do gênero Alouatta Lacépède (Primates, Atelidae) no Brasil. Rev. Bras. Zool. 23(1).