Guyanan red howler

The Guyanan red howler, Alouatta macconnelli, is a species of howler monkey and a New World monkey of the family Atelidae. It lives in the Guianas and the surrounding region, with its range running through Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, parts of Venezuela and Brazil, and the island of Trinidad. The animal was described by Daniel Giraud Elliot in 1910 and was long treated as part of the red howler of the Amazon basin, Alouatta seniculus, before the northeastern population was recognised as a separate species. It is an arboreal forest primate, one of the howler monkeys whose loud calls carry a long way through the canopy. The English Wikipedia article on the species is a short stub, so this entry records only what it supports: the identity, authority and described date, the countries of the range and its placement among the howler monkeys of South America. Further detail on diet, group life and conservation is owed to a later fill from a fuller source.