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Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Family: Atelidae Genus: Oreonax Thomas, 1927 Species: O. flavicauda
Binomial name
Oreonax flavicauda (Humboldt, 1812)

The Yellow-tailed Woolly monkey, Oreonax flavicauda, is a New World primate endemic to Peru. It is a rare species found only in the Peruvian Andes, with less than 250 individuals in the wild. It belongs in the monotypic genus Oreonax within the Atelidae family, but has been classified as a member of the genus Lagothrix with the rest of the woolly monkeys.

References

• Rylands et al (2000). Oreonax flavicauda. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Listed as Critically Endangered (CR B1+2abcde, C2a v2.3)
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