Gray-bellied Night Monkey vs Red leucaena

Aotus lemurinus compared with Leucaena diversifolia

Key Differences

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

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Gray-bellied Night Monkey	Red leucaena
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Primates (Primates)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Aotidae	Fabaceae
Genus	Aotus	Leucaena
Species	Aotus lemurinus	Leucaena diversifolia

Conservation Status

Gray-bellied Night Monkey

VU — Vulnerable

Red leucaena

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Gray-bellied Night Monkey	Red leucaena
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.

Red leucaena

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (29 countries), Asia (6 countries), North America (13 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Papua New Guinea), and South America (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador).

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 2 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia 🇪🇨 Ecuador