Black squirrel monkey

Black squirrel monkey[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cebidae
Genus: Saimiri
Species: S. vanzolinii
Binomial name
Saimiri vanzolinii
Ayres, 1985
Geographic range

The black squirrel monkey (Saimiri vanzolinii), also known as the blackish squirrel monkey or black-headed squirrel monkey, is a small New World primate, endemic to the central Amazon in Brazil.[2] It largely resembles the female of the far commoner Bolivian Squirrel Monkey, though the latter lacks the black central back.[3]

This squirrel monkey has one of the most restricted geographical distributions for a primate, living in várzea forest in the confluence of the Japura and Solimoes rivers. Its entire range is within the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve.[2]

References

  1. ^ Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 139. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100297. 
  2. ^ a b c Boubli, J.-P. & Rylands, A. B. (2008). Saimiri vanzolinii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 2 January 2009.
  3. ^ Rowe, N. (1996). The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates. Pogonia Press. ISBN 0-9648825-0-7. 

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