Aotus lemurinus I. Geoffroy 1843

Aotus lemurinus I. Geoffroy 1843, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 16: 1151.

Type Locality: Colombia, Santa Fe de Bogotá (see Defler et al., 2001).

Vernacular Names: Gray-bellied Night Monkey.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Aotus lemurinus subsp. lemurinus I. Geoffroy 1843

Subspecies Aotus lemurinus subsp. brumbacki Hershkovitz 1983

Subspecies Aotus lemurinus subsp. griseimembra Elliot 1912

Subspecies Aotus lemurinus subsp. zonalis Goldman 1914

Distribution: Panama, Equador and Colombia west of Cordillera Oriental.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Endangered as A. l. griseimembra, Data Deficient as A. l. zonalis, otherwise Vulnerable as A. l. brumbacki and A. l. lemurinus .

Discussion: Gray-necked species group. Ford (1994) suggested that brumbacki is a subspecies of A. lemurinus; followed by Groves (2001 c). Defler et al. (2001) argued that the described subspecies of A. lemurinus are probably full species, but more work (especially on karyotypes) needs to be done.