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Cacajao Lesson 1840

Description

Cacajao Lesson 1840

Cacajao Lesson 1840, Spec. Mamm. Bim. et Quadrum.: 181.

Type Species: Simia melanocephalus Humboldt 1812

Synonyms: Brachyurus Spix 1823; Cercoptochus Gloger 1842; Cothurus Palmer 1899; Neocothurus Palmer 1903; Ouakaria Gray 1849.

Species and subspecies: 2 species with 4 subspecies:

Species Cacajao calvus I. Geoffroy 1847

Subspecies Cacajao calvus subsp. calvus I. Geoffroy 1847

Subspecies Cacajao calvus subsp. novaesi Hershkovitz 1987

Subspecies Cacajao calvus subsp. rubicundus I. Geoffroy St. Hilaire and Deville 1848

Subspecies Cacajao calvus subsp. ucayalii Thomas 1928

Species Cacajao melanocephalus (Humboldt 1812)

Discussion: Revised by Hershkovitz (1987 c). Reduced to a subgenus of Chiropotes by Goodman et al. (1998).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Primates, pp. 111-184 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 146, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Lesson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Primates
Family
Pitheciidae
Genus
Cacajao
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Cacajao Lesson, 1840 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Lesson, R. P. 1840. Species es mammiferes bimanes et quadrimanes ... Bailliere, London, 292 pp.
  • Gray, J. E. 1849 [1850]. Vertebrata, in The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C. B., F. R. A. S., F. G. S., during the years 1843 - 1846 (A. Adams, ed.). Reeve and Benham, London, 250 pp.
  • Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. 1847. Vie, travaux et doctrine scientifique d'Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Paris, P. Bertrand, 3 + 1 + 479 pp.
  • Hershkovitz, P. 1987 c. Uacaries, New World monkeys of the genus Cacajao (Cebidae, Platyrrhini): a preliminary taxonomic review with the description of a new subspecies. American Journal of Primatology, 12: 1 - 53.