Saimiri collinsi

Osgood, 1916

Collins's Squirrel Monkey

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Primates
Suborder : Haplorhini
Infraorder : Simiiformes
Parvorder : Platyrrhini
Family : Cebidae
Subfamily : Saimiriinae
Genus : Saimiri

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Osgood, W.H. 1916. Mammals of the Collins-Day South American expedition. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 10(14):199-216.

Original name as described

Saimiri sciurea collinsi

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:19534

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Fazenda Teso, near Soure, Marajo, Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

split from sciureus

Taxonomy notes citation

Mittermeier R.A., Wilson D.E., Rylands A.B. 2013. Handbook of the mammals of the world. Vol. 3. Primates. Lynx Edicions. · Lynch-Alfaro, J., Boubli, J.P., Paim, F.P., Ribas, C.C., Silva, M.N., Messias, M.R., Röhe, F., Mercês, M.P., Silva Jr., J.S., Silva, C.R., Pinho, G.M., Koshkarian, G., Nguyen, M.T.T., Harada, M.L., Rabelo, R.M., Queiroz, H.L., Alfaro, M.E. and Farias, I.P. 2015. Biogeography of squirrel monkeys (genus Saimiri): south-central Amazon origin and rapid pan-Amazonian diversification of a lowland primate. Molecular Phylogenetics Evolution 82(B): 436-454.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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