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title: "Aotus nancymaae"
description: "Aotus nancymai — Mamíferos. Nancy Ma's night monkey (Aotus nancymaae) is a night monkey species from South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/nancy-ma-s-night-monkey
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Aotus nancymaae

> Aotus nancymai — Mamíferos. Nancy Ma's night monkey (Aotus nancymaae) is a night monkey species from South America.

- Scientific name: *Aotus nancymai*
- Category: `mammals` (Mamíferos)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta), `jungle` (Selva)
- iNaturalist observations: 77
- Wikidata: [Q1209751](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1209751)
- iNaturalist taxon: [43419](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43419)

## Names

- en: Nancy Ma’s Night Monkey
- de: Nancy-Ma-Nachtaffe
- es: Macaco Da Noite
- fr: Douroucouli du Loreto
- it: Aotus nancymaae
- nl: Aotus nancymaae
- pt: Aotus nancymaae
- pl: Aotus nancymaae

## Countries with the most observations

PE (39), BR (4)

## Summary

Nancy Ma's night monkey (Aotus nancymaae) is a night monkey species from South America. It is found in Brazil and Peru. The species is named after Dr. Nancy Shui-Fong Ma.
It is known in medical research as a model organism for studying the Duffy antigen. Nancy Ma's night monkeys have also been found to have an evolutionary pattern change in the hormone oxytocin. It was believed that all placental mammals had the same OXT amino acid chain until the discovery of a change in this New World monkey and others.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Ma%27s_night_monkey

## Photo

![Aotus nancymaae](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/nancy-ma-s-night-monkey/medium.jpg)

Photo: Whaldener Endo · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124038759

## Machine access

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