Plecturocebus leucometopus

(Cabrera, 1900)

Red-crowned Titi

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Primates
Suborder : Haplorhini
Infraorder : Simiiformes
Parvorder : Platyrrhini
Family : Pitheciidae
Subfamily : Callicebinae
Genus : Plecturocebus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Ana¡. de la Soc. Esp. de Hist. Nat., xxix, p. 83, lám. i, 30 de Noviembre 1900.

Original name as described

Callithrix cuprea leucometopa

Other common names

Red Titi Monkey · White-tailed Titi

Type material

MNCN 635, MNCN 636

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

vicinity of the junction of the Río Aguarico, tributary of the Río Napo-Pastaza, northeast Ecuador.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia · Ecuador · Peru

Taxonomy notes

name changed from P. discolor to P. leucometopus, as the name discolor is now considered a synonym of P. cupreus; moved from Callicebus to the recently described Plecturocebus, although this arrangement is considered tentative, as some recent publications prefer to recognize Cheracebus and Plecturocebus as subgenera of Callicebus

Taxonomy notes citation

Byrne, H., Rylands, A.B., Carneiro, J.C., Lynch Alfaro, J.W., Bertuol, F., Silva, M.N.F. da, Messias, M., Groves, C.P., Mittermeier, R.A., Farias, I.P., Hrbek, T., Schneider, H., Sampaio, I. and Boubli, J.P. 2016. Phylogenetic relationships of the New World titi monkeys (Callicebus): first appraisal of taxonomy based on molecular evidence. Frontiers in Zoology 13(1):10. doi:10.1186/s12983-016-0142-4 · Gutiérrez, E.E. and Marinho-Filho, J. 2017. The mammalian faunas endemic to the Cerrado and the Caatinga. ZooKeys 644:105-157. doi:10.3897/zookeys.644.10827 · Teta, P. 2019. The usage of subgenera in mammalian taxonomy. Mammalia 83(3):209-211. doi:10.1515/mammalia-2018-0059 · Vermeer, J., Tello-Alvarado, J.C., Luna-Amancio, J. and Rylands, A.B. 2025. An update on the taxonomy and geographic distribution of the northwestern titi monkeys, genus Plecturocebus (Callicebinae). Primate Conservation (in press). a#71053

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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