Cacajao rubicundus

(I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Deville, 1848)

Red Bald 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

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. and Deville, É. 1848. Note sur huit espèces nouvelles de Singes américains, faisant partie des collections de MM. de Castelnau et Émile Deville. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences 27:497-499.

Original name as described

Brachyurus rubicundus

Other common names

Red Uacari · Red Uakari · Red Bald-headed Uacari

Type material

MNHN-ZM-2005-898

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

"Du Brésil, village de Saint-Paul [São Paulo de Olivença]," Amazonas, Brazil. Restricted by F. E. Siva and colleagues in 2022 to "the flooded forest of the Jacurapá channel, north (left) bank of Rio Solimões, opposite São Paulo de Olivença, Amazonas, Brazil."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

split frmo 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

Least Concern

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