Golden angwantibo: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the golden angwantibo lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Arctocebus aureus
Group	Lorises, galagos & tarsiers
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Africa
Class	Mammal
Order	Primates
Family	Lorisidae

Where does the golden angwantibo live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the golden angwantibo in 1 country or territory across Africa.

Cameroon

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the golden angwantibo endangered?

The golden angwantibo’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the golden angwantibo?

The golden angwantibo (Arctocebus aureus) is a mammal in the order Primates and the family Lorisidae, genus Arctocebus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the golden angwantibo

The golden angwantibo (Arctocebus aureus) is a strepsirrhine primate of the family Lorisidae that is endemic to west-central Africa. It is native to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, where it can be found in small, localised distributions. It is a medium-sized lorisid of about 22 centimetres (8.7 in) in length and weighing 210 grams (7.4 oz), and is the smaller of the two angwantibo species. The pelage of the golden angwantibo is of a lustrous orange hue with a woolly texture, differentiating it from the duller Calabar angwantibo (Arctocebus calabarensis). It possesses typical strepsirrhine traits such as a toothcomb and grooming claws on the second pedal digits. The manual index fingers is absent, which is an adaptation that facilitates gripping branches and lianas for its slow, cryptic style of locomotion. As an angwantibo, it possesses a unique thorax consisting of overlapping ribs, which may play a role in predation avoidance or balancing the animal as it climbs.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Golden angwantibo (revision 1380879117), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q1150343 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).