Poeppig's woolly monkey, Red woolly monkey
The silvery woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha poeppigii ), also known as Poeppig's woolly monkey or the red woolly monkey, is a subspecies of the common woolly monkey from South America. Named after the German zoologist Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, it is found in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.
It was initially thought to be a subspecies of the common woolly monkey (L. lagothricha ), but was later reclassified as its own species. However, a 2014 phylogenetic study found it to in fact be a subspecies of L. lagothricha ; the results of this study have been followed by the American Society of Mammalogists and the IUCN Red List.
