Coiba Island Howler

Taxobox
name = Coiba Island HowlerMSW3 Groves|pages=148-149]
status = VU
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Atelidae
genus = "Alouatta"
species = "A. coibensis"
binomial = "Alouatta coibensis"
binomial_authority = Thomas, 1902

The Coiba Island Howler ("Alouatta coibensis") is a species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, endemic to Panama. Although the Coiba Island Howler is generally recognized as a separate species, mitochondrial DNA testing is inconclusive as to whether it is actually a subspecies of the Mantled Howler.cite book | author = Rylands, Groves, Mittermeier, Cortes-Ortiz & Hines | editor = Estrada, A.; Garber, P.A.; Pavelka, M.S.M.; Luecke, L. | chapter = Taxonomy and Distributions of Mesoamerican Primates | title = New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates| pages = p. 53 | isbn=978-0-387-25854-6 | year = 2006]

ubspecies

There are two subspecies of this howler:
*"Alouatta coibensis coibensis" Thomas, 1902
*Azuero Howler Monkey, "Alouatta coibensis trabeata" Lawrence, 1933

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