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title: "Colombian Night Monkey"
description: "Aotus lemurinus — Zoogdieren. The gray-bellied night monkey (Aotus lemurinus), also called the grey-legged douroucouli or lemurine owl monkey, is a small New World monkey of the family Aotidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/colombian-night-monkey
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Colombian Night Monkey

> Aotus lemurinus — Zoogdieren. The gray-bellied night monkey (Aotus lemurinus), also called the grey-legged douroucouli or lemurine owl monkey, is a small New World monkey of the family Aotidae.

- Scientific name: *Aotus lemurinus*
- Category: `mammals` (Zoogdieren)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 283
- Wikidata: [Q1206175](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1206175)
- iNaturalist taxon: [43417](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43417)

## Names

- en: Colombian Night Monkey
- de: Kolumbianischer Nachtaffe
- es: Mico De Noche Andino
- fr: Douroucouli lémurien
- pl: Ponocnica lemurowata

## Countries with the most observations

CO (135), EC (56)

## Summary

The gray-bellied night monkey (Aotus lemurinus), also called the grey-legged douroucouli or lemurine owl monkey, is a small New World monkey of the family Aotidae. Native to tropical and subtropical forests of South America, the gray-bellied night monkey faces a significant threat from hunting, harvesting for use in pharmaceutical research and habitat destruction.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray-bellied_night_monkey

## Photo

![Colombian Night Monkey](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/colombian-night-monkey/medium.jpg)

Photo: Scott Loarie · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/451336

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/colombian-night-monkey?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).