Gray-bellied Night Monkey vs lignum vitae

Aotus lemurinus compared with Guaiacum officinale

Key Differences

• Gray-bellied Night Monkey is Vulnerable while lignum vitae is Critically Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Gray-bellied Night Monkey	lignum vitae
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Primates (Primates)	Zygophyllales (Zygophyllales)
Family	Aotidae	Zygophyllaceae
Genus	Aotus	Guaiacum
Species	Aotus lemurinus	Guaiacum officinale

Conservation Status

Gray-bellied Night Monkey

VU — Vulnerable

lignum vitae

CR — Critically Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Gray-bellied Night Monkey	lignum vitae
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.

lignum vitae

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, among 5 distinct biome types within the Neotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Cuba, India, and United States. Currently classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 1 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia