Pithecia hirsuta

von Spix, 1823

Hairy 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

Spix, J.B. von. 1823. Simiarum et vespertilionum brasiliensium species novae, ou histoire naturelle des espèces nouvelles de singes et de chauves-souris observées et recueillies pendant le voyage dans l'intérieur du Brésil exécuté par ordre de S. M. le roi de Bavière dans les années 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820. Franciscus Seraphicus Hübschmann, Munich, 72 pp.

Original name as described

Pithecia hirsuta

Type material

ZSM 19

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

forests between rios Negro and Solimões, Amazonas, Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia · Peru · Brazil

Taxonomy notes

split from P. monachus

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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