Pithecia chrysocephala
I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1851
Golden-faced Saki
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Primates |
| Suborder | : Haplorhini |
| Infraorder | : Simiiformes |
| Parvorder | : Platyrrhini |
| Family | : Pitheciidae |
| Subfamily | : Pitheciinae |
| Genus | : Pithecia |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Authority citation
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. 1851. Note sur plusieurs espèces nouvelles de Mammifères, de l'ordre des Primates. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences 31:873-876.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1224797Original name as described
Pithecia chrysocephala
Type material
RMNH.MAM.63700.a, RMNH.MAM.63700.b
Type kind
neotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.63700.a https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.63700.bType locality
Manacapurú, Amazonas, Brazil.
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Brazil
Taxonomy notes
split from P. pithecia
Taxonomy notes citation
March, L.K. 2014. A taxonomic revision of the Saki Monkeys, Pithecia Desmarest, 1804. Neotropical Primates 21(1): 1-165.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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