Cacajao melanocephalus

(von Humboldt in von Humboldt & Bonpland, 1811)

Golden-brown Uacari

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Humboldt, A. von and Bonpland, A. 1811. Recueil d'observations de zoologie et d'anatomie comparée, faites dans l'Océan atlantique, dans l'intérieur du nouveau continent et dans la mer du sud pendant les années 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 et 1803. Premier volume. F. Schoell, Paris, 368 pp.

Original name as described

Simia melanocephala

Other common names

Golden-backed Uacari · Golden-backed Uakari · Spix's Black-headed Uacari · Spix's Black-headed Uakari · Black-headed Uacari · Black-headed Uakari

Type material

MN 68616

Type kind

neotype

Type locality

Rio Içá at the confluence with the Rio Solimões. Restricted by P. Hershkovitz in 1987 to the Rio Japurá on the north bank of its confluence with the Rio Solimões.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia · Venezuela · Brazil

Taxonomy notes

formerly included the populations here put under ayresi and hosomi, following Boubli, et al., and the IUCN; Ferrari, et al., however, arranged ayresi as a subspecies of melanocephalus, subsumed hosomi as a synonym of m. melanocephalus, and resurrected ouakary to include all the populations here included under melanocephalus; because of the controversy surrounding this opinionated taxonomic decision, some authors have opted to retain only a single species, C. melanocephalus, including ouakary, hosomi, and ayresi as synonyms

Taxonomy notes citation

Boubli, J. P., da Silva, M. N. F., Amado, M. V., Hrbek, T., Pontual, F. B., & Farias, I. P. (2008). A taxonomic reassessment of Cacajao melanocephalus Humboldt (1811), with the description of two new species. International Journal of Primatology, 29(3), 723-741. · Ferrari, S. F., Guedes, P. G., Figueiredo-Ready, W. M., & Barnett, A. A. (2014). Reconsidering the taxonomy of the Black-Faced Uacaris, Cacajao melanocephalus group (Mammalia: Pitheciidae), from the northern Amazon Basin. Zootaxa, 3866(3), 353-370.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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