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
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.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/62186506 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/62186550Original 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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