Arctocebus calabarensis

– Lower Risk Near Threatened

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

PRIMATES

Family:

LORIDAE

Scientific Name:

Arctocebus calabarensis

Species Authority:

(J.A. Smith, 1860)

Common Name/s:

English	—	ANGWANTIBO, CALABAR ANGWANTIBO, GOLDEN POTTO
French	—	ANGWANTIBO, ARCTOCÈBE, POTTO DE CALABAR
Spanish	—	POTO DORADO

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

LR/nt ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Primate Specialist Group

History:

1988	-	Insufficiently Known (Lee et al. 1988)
1988	-	Insufficiently Known (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Insufficiently Known (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Vulnerable (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Cameroon; Nigeria

Population

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

List of Habitats:

1.5	Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry

Threats

List of Threats:

1.1.1.1	Habitat Loss/Degradation - Agriculture - Crops - Shifting Agriculture (ongoing)
1.3.3	Habitat Loss/Degradation - Extraction - Wood (ongoing)
3.1	Harvesting (hunting/gathering) - Food (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Lee, P.C., Thornback, J. and Bennett, E.L. 1988. Threatened Primates of Africa. The IUCN Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Citation:	Primate Specialist Group 1996. Arctocebus calabarensis. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 06 September 2008.
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