Black-headed night monkey

The black-headed night monkey (Aotus nigriceps) is a night monkey species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru.[3] The A. nigriceps in Peru were notably inhabiting areas that were degraded, and often these areas were disturbed either by human activities or natural occurrences in the ecosystem.[4]

Black-headed night monkey[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Aotidae
Genus: Aotus
Species:
A. nigriceps
Binomial name
Aotus nigriceps
(Dollman, 1909)
Black-headed night monkey range

Names

It is called ausisiti in the Kwaza language of Rondônia, Brazil,[5] and nu’nu’ in the Shawi language of Peru.[6]

Parasites

A. nigroceps suffers from Plasmodium brasilianum malaria.[7] P. brasilianum was first found in A. nigroceps by Araújo et al 2013.[7]

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. 140–141. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
  2. Shanee, S.; Alves, S.L.; Calouro, A.M.; Lynch Alfaro, J.W.; Romero-Valenzuela, D.; Messias, M.R.; Röhe, F.; Ravetta, A.L. (2021). "Aotus nigriceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T41542A190455194. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T41542A190455194.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  3. International), Russell A. Mittermeier (Conservation; Urbani, Bernardo; Link, Andrés (26 January 2015). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Aotus griseimembra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  4. Helenbrook, William. D.; Wilkinson, Madison L.; Suarez, Jessica A. (March 2020). "Habitat use, fruit consumption, and population density of the black-headed night monkey, Aotus nigriceps, in southeastern Peru". Acta Amazonica. 50 (1): 37–43. doi:10.1590/1809-4392201900172. ISSN 1809-4392.
  5. Manso, Laura Vicuña Pereira. 2013. Dicionário da língua Kwazá. M.A. dissertation. Guajará-Mirim: Federal University of Rondônia.
  6. Rojas-Berscia, Luis Miguel. 2019. From Kawapanan to Shawi: Topics in language variation and change. Doctoral dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen.
  7. Pina-Costa, Anielle de; Brasil, Patrícia; Santi, Sílvia Maria Di; Araujo, Mariana Pereira de; Suárez-Mutis, Martha Cecilia; Santelli, Ana Carolina Faria e Silva; Oliveira-Ferreira, Joseli; Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Ricardo; Daniel-Ribeiro, Cláudio Tadeu (2014). "Malaria in Brazil: what happens outside the Amazonian endemic region". Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. FapUNIFESP (SciELO). 109 (5): 618–633. doi:10.1590/0074-0276140228. ISSN 0074-0276. S2CID 14370475.


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