Gray-bellied Night Monkey vs red spiderling

Aotus lemurinus compared with Boerhavia diffusa

Key Differences

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

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Gray-bellied Night Monkey	red spiderling
Kingdom	Animalia (동물)	Plantae (식물)
Phylum	Chordata (척삭동물)	Magnoliophyta (피자식물문)
Class	Mammalia (포유류)	Magnoliopsida (목련강)
Order	Primates (영장목)	Caryophyllales (석죽목)
Family	Aotidae	Nyctaginaceae
Genus	Aotus	Boerhavia
Species	Aotus lemurinus	Boerhavia diffusa

Conservation Status

Gray-bellied Night Monkey

VU — Vulnerable

red spiderling

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Gray-bellied Night Monkey	red spiderling
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 spiderling

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 Indomalayan biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (11 countries), Asia (7 countries), and South America (4 countries).

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 1 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia