Cacajao amuna

F. E. Silva, do Amaral, Roos, Bowler, Röhe, R. Sampaio, Janiak, Bertuol, Santana, e Silva Júnior, Rylands, Gubili, Hrbek, McDevitt, & J. P. Boubli, 2022

Kanamari White 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

Authority citation

Silva, F.E., Amaral, J.V. do, Roos, C., Bowler, M., Röhe, F., Sampaio, R., Janiak, M.C., Bertuol, F., Santana, M.I., Silva Júnior, J. de S. e, Rylands, A.B., Gubili, C., Hrbek, T., McDevitt, A.D. and Boubli, J.P. 2022-08. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of bald uakaris, genus Cacajao (Primates: Pitheciidae), with the description of a new species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 173:107509.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107509

Original name as described

Cacajao amuna

Other common names

Kanamari White Uakari

Type material

IDSM 03676

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Lago Itucumã, seasonally flooded forest (várzea) of the right bank of the lower Rio Tarauacá, a right-bank tributary of the Rio Juruá, state of Amazonas, Brazil (6°56′06″ S, 69°44′16″ W)."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

recently described based on populations previously attributed to C. calvus

Taxonomy notes citation

Silva, F. E., do Amaral, J. V., Roos, C., Bowler, M., Röhe, F., Sampaio, R., ... & Boubli, J. P. (2022). Molecular phylogeny and systematics of bald uakaris, genus Cacajao Lesson, 1840 (Primates: Pitheciidae), with the description of a new species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 173, 107509.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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