Vanzolini's bald-faced saki

Vanzolini's bald-faced saki[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Pitheciidae
Genus: Pithecia
Species: P. vanzolinii
Binomial name
Pithecia vanzolinii
Hershkovitz, 1987

Vanzolini's bald-faced saki (Pithecia vanzolinii) is a species of saki monkey, a type of New World monkey. Its range is in western Brazil.[2] The monkey is named after Brazilian zoologist Paulo Vanzolini. This species was originally described by Hershkovitz as the subspecies Pithecia irrorata vanzolinii[3][4] but it was raised to full species status in 2014.[2]

References

Wikispecies has information related to: Pithecia vanzolinii
  1. 1 2 Marsh, L.K.; Veiga, L.M. (2015). "Pithecia vanzolinii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 5 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. Hershkovitz, P. (1987). "The taxonomy of south American sakis, genus Pithecia (Cebidae, Platyrrhini): A preliminary report and critical review with the description of a new species and a new subspecies". American Journal of Primatology. 12 (4): 387–468. doi:10.1002/ajp.1350120402.
  4. Groves, C.P. (2005). "Pithecia irrorata". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.


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