Gray-bellied Night Monkey vs Jio

Aotus lemurinus compared with Commelina benghalensis

Key Differences

• Gray-bellied Night Monkey is Vulnerable while Jio is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Gray-bellied Night Monkey	Jio
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Primates (Primates)	Commelinales (Commelinales)
Family	Aotidae	Commelinaceae
Genus	Aotus	Commelina
Species	Aotus lemurinus	Commelina benghalensis

Conservation Status

Gray-bellied Night Monkey

VU — Vulnerable

Jio

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Gray-bellied Night Monkey	Jio
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Gray-bellied Night Monkey

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Currently classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

Jio

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, flooded grasslands and savannas, and tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, among 5 distinct biome types. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (11 countries), Asia (7 countries), Europe (Croatia, Portugal, Spain), North America (Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (6 countries), and South America (5 countries).

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 2 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia 🇻🇪 Venezuela