Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1

Pithecia monachus

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Description

Pithecia monachus (É. Geoffroy, 1812). Rec. Observ. Zool. 1:359.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, left bank of Rio Solimôes between Tabatinga and Rio Tocantins.

DISTRIBUTION: West of Rio Jurua and Rio Japura-Caqueta (in Brazil), Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: guapo; hirsuta Spix, 1823; inusta, milleri, napensis.

COMMENTS: Does not include albicans, see Hershkovitz (1979). Includes hirsuta, see Hershkovitz (1987d).

Notes

Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Primates, pp. 243-277 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 261-262, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353122

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
E. Geoffroy
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Primates
Family
Cebidae
Genus
Pithecia
Species
monachus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pithecia monachus (Geoffroy, 1812) sec. Groves, 1993

References

  • Hershkovitz, P. 1979. The species of sakis, genus Pithecia, with notes on sexual dichromatism. Folia Primatologia, 31: 1 - 22.
  • Hershkovitz, P. 1987 d. The taxonomy of South American sakis, genus Pithecia: A preliminary report and critical review with the description of a new species and subspecies. American Journal of Primatology, 12: 387 - 468.