Black-headed Night Monkey vs Prickly Yellow

Aotus nigriceps compared with Zanthoxylum caribaeum

Key Differences

• Black-headed Night Monkey is Least Concern while Prickly Yellow is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Black-headed Night Monkey	Prickly Yellow
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Primates (Primates)	Sapindales (Sapindales)
Family	Aotidae	Rutaceae
Genus	Aotus	Zanthoxylum
Species	Aotus nigriceps	Zanthoxylum caribaeum

Conservation Status

Black-headed Night Monkey

LC — Least Concern

Prickly Yellow

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Black-headed Night Monkey	Prickly Yellow
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Black-headed Night Monkey

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Prickly Yellow

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Range

Distributed across Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba.

Black-headed Night Monkey

The Black-headed Night Monkey (Aotus nigriceps) is a species in the genus Aotus. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.