Illustration by François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Primates
Suborder:
Haplorhini
Infraorder:
Simiiformes
Family:
Pitheciidae
Genus:
Pithecia
Species:
P. monachus
Binomial name
Pithecia monachus
(É. Geoffroy, 1812)
Approximate range of the monk saki (includes P. hirsuta, P. monachus, P. inusta, and P. milleri)
The monk saki (Pithecia monachus) also known as Geoffroy's monk saki, is a species of saki monkey, a type of New World monkey, from South America. It is found in forested areas of northwestern Brazil and northeastern Peru.[3]
^Groves, C. P. (2005). "Order Primates". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 147–148. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
^Marsh, L.K.; Heymann, E. W.; Moura, E.; Ravetta, A. (2018). "Pithecia monachus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T70609726A17971958. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T70609726A17971958.en. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
^Marsh, L. K. (July 2014). "A Taxonomic Revision of the Saki Monkeys, Pithecia Desmarest, 1804". Neotropical Primates. 21 (1): 1–165. doi:10.1896/044.021.0101. S2CID 86516301.
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