Sapajus cay
(Illiger, 1815)
Hooded Capuchin
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Primates |
| Suborder | : Haplorhini |
| Infraorder | : Simiiformes |
| Parvorder | : Platyrrhini |
| Family | : Cebidae |
| Subfamily | : Cebinae |
| Genus | : Sapajus |
Species status
Authority citation
Illiger, J.K.W. 1815. Ueberblick der Säugthiere nach ihrer Vertheilung über die Welttheile. Abhandlungen der physikalischen Klasse der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1804-1811:39-159.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11080963 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11080967Original name as described
Callithrix Cay
Other common names
Azara's Capuchin
Type locality
left bank of the Río Paraguai, Paraguay.
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Brazil · Bolivia · Paraguay · Argentina
Taxonomy notes
moved from Cebus to Sapajus, although this arrangement is relatively tentative, as a number of sources still consider Sapajus as a subgenus of Cebus; split from S. libidinosus (originally under the name paraguayensis, older authors not knowing of the name cay) but may be a synonym/subspecies of S. apella based on recent molecular data, although the species is tentatively retained here following recent publications
Taxonomy notes citation
Silva Jr., J. de S. 2001. Especiação nos macacos-prego e caiararas, gênero Cebus Erxleben, 1777 (Primates, Cebidae). Doctoral Thesis, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. · Lynch Alfaro, J.W., Silva, J.S. and Rylands, A.B. 2012. How different are robust and gracile Capuchin Monkeys? An argument for the use of Sapajus and Cebus. American Journal of Primatology 74(4): 273–286. · Lynch Alfaro, J. W., Boubli, J. P., Olson, L. E., Di Fiore, A., Wilson, B., Gutiérrez‐Espeleta, G. A., ... & Schwochow, D. (2012). Explosive Pleistocene range expansion leads to widespread Amazonian sympatry between robust and gracile capuchin monkeys. Journal of biogeography, 39(2), 272-288. · Gutiérrez, E. E., & Marinho-Filho, J. (2017). The mammalian faunas endemic to the Cerrado and the Caatinga. ZooKeys, (644), 105. · Teta, P. (2019). The usage of subgenera in mammalian taxonomy. Mammalia, 83(3), 209-211. · Martins, A. B., Valença-Montenegro, M. M., Lima, M. G. M., Lynch, J. W., Svoboda, W. K., Silva-Júnior, J. D. S. E., ... & Fiore, A. D. (2023). A New Assessment of Robust Capuchin Monkey (Sapajus) Evolutionary History Using Genome-Wide SNP Marker Data and a Bayesian Approach to Species Delimitation. Genes, 14(5), 970.
IUCN Red List status
Vulnerable
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