Pithecia cazuzai

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Pithecia cazuzai
Systematics
Subordination : Dry- nosed primates (Haplorrhini)
Partial order : Monkey (anthropoidea)
without rank: New World Monkey (Platyrrhini)
Family : Sakia monkeys (Pitheciidae)
Genre : Sakis ( Pithecia )
Type : Pithecia cazuzai
Scientific name
Pithecia cazuzai
Marsh , 2014

Pithecia cazuzai is a species of primate from the New World monkey group that occurs in a small area in western Brazil west of the mouth of the Rio Japurá into the Amazon . The species has the smallest distribution area of ​​all Sakis . It was only in 2014 in a revision new of Sakis described . The description was based on three type specimens , an adult male as well as an adult and a large juvenile female.

features

The head-torso length of the examined male of P. cazuzai is 60 cm, that of the two females is 35 and 48 cm, respectively. The tail of the male is 30 cm long, the tails of the females reach lengths of 43 and 49 cm. Pithecia cazuzai is most similar to Pithecia hirsuta , whose range adjoins to the west. Like all Sakis, Pithecia cazuzai has a shaggy, coarse coat that is blackish but slightly lighter than that of Pithecia hirsuta due to the partly white hair tips . The lightening is more pronounced in males than in females. The hands and feet of the monkeys are covered with short whitish, slightly gray hair. The hairless face is surrounded by a wreath of gray hair. The bare skin of the face is predominantly black; in females and young animals, the region immediately above the eyes and the eyelids is unpigmented or rosy. Narrow white hair bands run along the lips, a feature missing from Pithecia hirsuta .

Systematics

Pithecia cazuzai was only in 2014 in a review of Sakis by Laura K. Marsh described and after the Brazilian primatologist José de Sousa e Silva Júnior (called 'Cazuza') named for a long time as a curator for mammals in a museum in Belém has worked . Pithecia cazuzai were previously attributed to the bald-faced Saki ( Pithecia irrorata ).

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