Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Annona purpurea Moç. & Sessé ex Dunal
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Annona purpurea
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
Moç. & Sessé ex Dunal
Common names
annona, negrohead, sincuya, soncoya
Names in other languages (27)Anona rosada (Panama), Bullock's Heart, Cabeza de negro, Cashima, Coeur de Boeuf, Custard Apple (Trinidad & Tobago); Manirote, Mi’ca, Sancoya, Soncoia, anona morada, anona purpurová, anona rosada, atier, cabeza-negro, catagüire, flaszowiec purpurowy, guanábana, manire, manirote, sincolla, toreta, turagua, tête de négre, Аннона пурпурная, Сонкойя, 墨西哥番荔枝, 紫番荔枝
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Magnoliales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Annonaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Annona
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
purpurea
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Annona purpurea
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-13 10:50.
Photo of Annona purpurea Moç. & Sessé ex Dunal
Photo: Olvin Wilfredo Oyuela · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Annona purpurea Moç. & Sessé ex Dunal
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Photo of Annona purpurea Moç. & Sessé ex Dunal
Photo: Melvin Bonilla · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Annona purpurea Moç. & Sessé ex Dunal
Photo: Rosalinda Melendrez · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Annona purpurea Moç. & Sessé ex Dunal
Photo: Stef · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Annona purpurea Moç. & Sessé ex Dunal
Photo: Kathy Daniel · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-13 10:50.

Interacciones documentadas

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Types shown: 5 of 5 is a host of × is eaten by × has as a parasite × interacts with × is a parasite of ×

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is a host of 19 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
BOLD:AAA8311 Hesperiidae is a host of 9 not compared
Meliola annonae Meliolaceae is a host of 7 not compared
Cercospora caracasensis is a host of 5 no location
BOLD:AAB0981 Hesperiidae is a host of 2 not compared
Showing 4 of 19, by number of studies See more of this type

is eaten by 3 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Automeris zugana Saturniidae is eaten by 1 no location
Colombian Red Howler Monkey Alouatta seniculus Atelidae is eaten by 1 no location
Colombian White-throated Capuchin Cebus capucinus Cebidae is eaten by 1 no location
Showing 3 of 3, by number of studies

has as a parasite 2 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Bephratelloides pomorum Eurytomidae has as a parasite 1 no location
Bephratelloides Eurytomidae has as a parasite 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Showing 2 of 2, by number of studies

interacts with 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Bephratelloides pomorum Eurytomidae interacts with 1 no location
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

is a parasite of 1 organism

This term declares that the organism benefits this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
BOLD:AAA0022 Depressariidae is a parasite of 5 not compared
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.