Gray-bellied Night Monkey vs lime prickly-ash

Aotus lemurinus compared with Zanthoxylum fagara

Key Differences

• Gray-bellied Night Monkey is Vulnerable while lime prickly-ash is Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Gray-bellied Night Monkey	lime prickly-ash
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 lemurinus	Zanthoxylum fagara

Conservation Status

Gray-bellied Night Monkey

VU — Vulnerable

lime prickly-ash

EN — Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Gray-bellied Night Monkey	lime prickly-ash
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.

lime prickly-ash

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 Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba. Currently classified as 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