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The Neblina uakari or black-headed uakari, is a newly described species of monkey from the far northwest Brazilian Amazon and adjacent southern Venezuela. It was found by Jean-Phillipe Boubli of the University of Auckland and described together with the more easterly distributed Aracá uakari in 2008. Until then, the black-headed uakari was the only species of mainly black uakari that was recognized.
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Crepidochares neblinae is a moth in the Eriocottidae family. It was described by Davis in 1990. It is found in Venezuela.
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- ↑ Fleming, Henry (1948). "A New Genus and Species of Orneodidae (Moths) from Rancho Grande, North-central Venezuela". Zoologica. 33 (1): 39. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Alinguata neblina". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 25, 2018.