White-nosed saki
| White-nosed saki[1] | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Pitheciidae |
| Genus: | Chiropotes |
| Species: | C. albinasus |
| Binomial name | |
| Chiropotes albinasus (I. Geoffroy and Deville, 1848) | |
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| White-nosed Saki range | |
The white-nosed saki (Chiropotes albinasus) is an endangered species of bearded saki, a type of New World monkey, endemic to the south-central Amazon rainforest in Brazil and possibly a small area east of Bolivia. Both its scientific and common name were caused by the authors working from dead specimens, where the skin on and around the nose fades to whitish.[3] In living individuals, it is actually bright pink (though with fine barely visible white hairs), and the pelage is black.[4] No other species of the genus Chiropotes have a brightly colored nose.[3]
References
- ↑ Groves, C.P. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 146. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
- ↑ Veiga, L. M., Pinto, L. P., Ferrari, S. F., Rylands, A. B., Mittermeier, R. A. & Boubli, J.-P. (2008). Chiropotes albinasus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
- 1 2 Emmons, L. H. (1997). Neotropical Rainforest Mammals (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-20719-6.
- ↑ Photo of C. albinasus. Saxifraga.de. Accessed 2008-11-29
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