Black-headed uakari

Black-headed uakari[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Pitheciidae
Genus: Cacajao
Species: C. melanocephalus
Binomial name
Cacajao melanocephalus
(Humboldt, 1812)
Black-headed Uakari range

The black-headed uakari (Cacajao melanocephalus), also known as the golden-backed black uakari,[2] is a New World primate from the family Pitheciidae. It is native to north-western Brazil, south-eastern Colombia and south-western Venezuela, living in the Amazon Rainforest, especially in the seasonally flooded forests called igapos.[2]

They typically live in groups of 5-40 individuals, but occasionally more than 100 may come together.[2] They mainly feed on seeds, but also take fruits, leaves, pith and arthropods.[2] It is sometimes split into two subspecies, C. m. melanocephalus and C. m. ouakary, but recent authorties treat it as monotypic.[1] Traditionally, this was the only species of mainly black uakari recognized, but two additional species, the Aracá uakari and Neblina uakari were described in 2008.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 146. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100349. 
  2. ^ a b c d e Barnett, A. A., Boubli, J.-P., Veiga, L. M. & Palacios, E. (2008). Cacajao melanocephalus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 3 January 2009.
  3. ^ Boubli, J. P., M. N. F. da Silva, M. V. Amado, T. Hrbek, F. B. Pontual, and I. P. Farias (2008). A taxonomic reassessment of black uakari monkeys, Cacajao melanocephalus group, Humboldt (1811), with the description of two new species. International Journal of Primatology 29: 723–749.

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