Neblina uakari

Neblina uakari[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Pitheciidae
Genus: Cacajao
Species: C. hosomi
Binomial name
Cacajao hosomi
Boubli et al., 2008
Neblina Uakari range

The Neblina uakari (Cacajao hosomi) is a newly described species of monkey from the far northwest Brazilian Amazon and adjacent southern Venezuela.[2] It was found by Jean-Phillipe Boubli of the University of Auckland and described together with the more easternly distributed Aracá Uakari in 2008.[1] Until then, the black-headed uakari (found to the west and south of the Neblina Uakari) was the only species of mainly black uakari that was recognized.[3]

The English name of the Neblina uakari refers to the Pico da Neblina, which marks the approximate center of its known distribution. Several years before it was realized it represented an undescribed species (and not "just" black-headed uakaris), it was studied in the Pico da Neblina National Park in Brazil.[4] When combined with the adjacent Serranía de la Neblina National Park in Venezuela, a significant part of this uakaris distribution is within protected areas.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b 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. doi:10.1007/s10764-008-9248-7. 
  2. ^ a b c Boubli, J.-P. & Veiga, L.M. (2008). Cacajao hosomi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 October 2008.
  3. ^ 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. 
  4. ^ Boubli, J. P. (1994). The black uakari monkey in the Pico da Neblina National Park. Neotropical Primates 2(3): 11-12.