Golden-faced saki

Golden-faced saki[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Pitheciidae
Genus: Pithecia
Species: P. chrysocephala
Binomial name
Pithecia chrysocephala
I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1850

The golden-faced saki (Pithecia chrysocephala) is a species of saki monkey, a type of New World monkey. It is found in Brazil north of the Amazon, on both sides of the Rio Negro.[2] This species was formerly considered a subspecies of the white-faced saki (P. pithecia),[3] but was raised to full species status in 2014.[2]

References

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  1. 1 2 Mittermeier, R.A.; Veiga, L.M.; Marsh, L.K. (2015). "Pithecia chrysocephala". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  2. 1 2 Marsh, L. K. (July 2014). "A Taxonomic Revision of the Saki Monkeys, Pithecia Desmarest, 1804". Neotropical Primates. 21 (1): 1–165. doi:10.1896/044.021.0101.
  3. Groves, C.P. (2005). "Pithecia pithecia chrysocephala". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.


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