Miller's monk monkey

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Miller's monk monkey
Systematics
Subordination : Dry- nosed primates (Haplorrhini)
Partial order : Monkey (anthropoidea)
without rank: New World Monkey (Platyrrhini)
Family : Sakia monkeys (Pitheciidae)
Genre : Sakis ( Pithecia )
Type : Miller's monk monkey
Scientific name
Pithecia milleri
Allen , 1914

Miller's monk monkey ( Pithecia milleri ) is a species of primate from the New World monkey group that occurs in southern Colombia and northeastern Ecuador. The distribution area is in the foothills of the Andes around Florencia at heights of 500 to 700 meters and extends northeast to the Serranía de la Macarena and in the south to the adjacent regions of northeast Ecuador north of the Río Napo . Since a population is known that lives in the Cuyabeno nature reserve on the border between Ecuador and Peru, the species could also occur in the far north of Peru in the area between Río Napo and Río Putumayo .

features

Miller's monk monkey is similar to the monk monkey ( Pithecia monachus ) and Pithecia hirsuta , but the black fur of the males is light yellow or whitish mottled. The sexual dimorphism is more pronounced than in the other two species and the females of Miller's monk monkey are almost monochrome gray. The face of males and females is covered with short white hair, the gray mouth region is bordered by white lines that are slightly wider in females than in males. The hands and feet of the males are yellowish-white, those of the females are whitish. The forehead, chest and throat of the males are yellowish-brown.

Miller's monk monkey reaches a head-trunk length of 33 to 48 cm (males) or a maximum of 39 cm (females), has a 41 to 50 cm long tail and weighs 2.6 to 2.8 kg (males ) or 2.2 kg (females).

Systematics

Miller's monk monkey was described in 1914 by Joel Allen, an employee of the American Museum of Natural History. The species was named after Leo Miller, who procured the type specimen. The Mammaloge Philip Hershkovitz made him in 1987 to a subspecies of the monk monkey ( Pithecia monachus ). In a revision of the Sakis in 2014, Miller's monk monkey was raised again to the rank of an independent species.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen F. Ferrari, Liza M. Veiga, Liliam P. Pinto, Laura K. Marsh, Russell A. Mittermeier & Anthony B. Rylands: Family Pitheciidae (Titis, Sakis and Uacaris). Page 475 in Russell A. Mittermeier , Anthony B. Rylands & Don E. Wilson : Handbook of the Mammals of the World - Volume 3: Primates. Lynx Editions, 2013 ISBN 978-8496553897
  2. ↑ Hershkovitz, P. (1987). The taxonomy of south American sakis, genus Pithecia (Cebidae, Platyrrhini): A preliminary report and critical review with the description of a new species and a new subspecies. American Journal of Primatology 12 (4): 387-468. doi: 10.1002 / ajp.1350120402

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