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{{Short description|Species of New World monkey}}
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| name = Amazon black howler<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Groves|pages=149|id=12100384}}</ref>
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Ravetta, A.L. |author2=Sampaio, R. |author3=Rylands, A.B. |author4=Cortés-Ortiz, L. |date=2021 |title=''Alouatta nigerrima'' |volume=2021 |page=e.T136332A190424175 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T136332A190424175.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Alouatta
| species = nigerrima
| authority = [[Einar Lönnberg|Lönnberg]], 1941
| range_map = Amazon Black Howler area.png
| range_map_caption = Amazon black howler range
}}

The '''Amazon black howler''' ('''''Alouatta nigerrima''''') is a species of [[howler monkey]], a type of [[New World monkey]], [[Endemic (ecology)|endemic]] to the south-central [[Amazon Rainforest|Amazon]] in [[Brazil]].<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021" /> Until 2001, most authorities included it as a [[subspecies]] (or simply a [[Taxonomy (biology)|taxonomically]] insignificant variation) of the [[red-handed howler]],<ref name=Groves>[[Colin Groves|Groves, C.]] (2001). ''Primate Taxonomy.'' Smithsonian Institution Press. {{ISBN|1-56098-872-X}}</ref> though its distinction had already been pointed out much earlier.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=da Cruz Lima |first1=E. |year=1945 |title=Mammals of Amazônia |volume=1 |publisher=Contribuições do [[Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi|Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi de História Natural e Etnografia]]}}</ref> As suggested by its name, it typically appears entirely black.<ref name=Gregorin>{{cite journal |last1=Gregorin |first1=R. |year=2006 |url=http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0101-81752006000100005&script=sci_arttext |language=pt |title=Taxonomia e variação geográfica das espécies do gênero Alouatta Lacépède (Primates, Atelidae) no Brasil |journal=Rev. Bras. Zool. |volume=23 |issue=1|pages=64–144 |doi=10.1590/S0101-81752006000100005 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

==References==
{{Wikispecies|Alouatta nigerrima|Amazon Black Howler}}
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[[Category:Howler monkeys of South America|Amazon black howler]]
[[Category:Primates of Brazil]]
[[Category:Endemic mammals of Brazil]]
[[Category:Mammals described in 1941|Amazon black howler]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Einar Lönnberg]]


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