Silvery Woolly Monkey

Taxobox
name = Silvery Woolly MonkeyMSW3 Groves|pages=151-152]
status = VU
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006|assessors=Rylands "et al"|year=2003|id=39927|title=Lagothrix poeppigii|downloaded=11 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is vulnerable]
trend = unknown
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Atelidae
genus = "Lagothrix"
species = "L. poeppigii"
binomial = "Lagothrix poeppigii"
binomial_authority = Schinz, 1844

The Silvery Woolly Monkey ("Lagothrix poeppigii"), also known as Poeppig's Woolly Monkey, is a woolly monkey species from South America. Named after the German zoologist Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, it is found in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.

References

External links

* [http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/ Infonatura]
*ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Lagothrix_poeppigii/ images and movies of the Poeppig's woolly monkey "(Lagothrix poeppigii)"]