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Alouatta seniculus (red howler monkey)

Synonyms: Alouatta macconnelli insulanus; Mycetes seniculus; Simia seniculus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Venezuelan red howler (Alouatta seniculus) is a South American species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, found in the western Amazon Basin in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. The population in the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia was split off as a separate species, the Bolivian red howler, in 1986, and more recently, splitting off the population in northeastern South America and Trinidad as the Guyanan red howler has occurred. All howler monkeys belong to the family Atelidae and the infraorder Platyrrhini (New World monkeys).
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Infraspecies

Alouatta seniculus insulanus
Alouatta seniculus juara (Juru Red Howler)
Alouatta seniculus puruensis (Purus Red Howler)
Alouatta seniculus seniculus (Colombian Red Howler)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.94
EDGE Score: 1.94
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14.425 lbs (6.543 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  263 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  40 %
Diet - Plants [2]  60 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  4 years
Gestation [1]  6 months 10 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  25 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  29 inches (74 cm)
Weaning [1]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Amblyomma cajennense (Cayenne tick)[6]
Amblyomma paulopunctatum[6]
Buginetta demerariensis <Unverified Name>[7]
Cochliomyia hominivorax (screw worm)[6]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Diet of the Red Howler Monkey (Alouatta seniculus) in French Guiana, C. Julliot and D. Sabatier, International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1993, pp. 527-550
♦ 5"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 6Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0