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SPECIES Pithecia monachus

Author:É. Geoffroy, 1812.
Citation:Rec. Observ. Zool., 1: 359.
Common Name:Monk Saki
Type Locality:Brazil, left bank of Rio Solimões between Tabatinga and Rio Tocantins.
Distribution:West of Rio Jurua and Rio Japura-Caqueta (in Brazil), Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Status:CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable as P. m. milleri, Data Deficient as P. m. napensis, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Does not include albicans, see Hershkovitz (1979). Includes hirsuta, see Hershkovitz (1987d).
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SUBSPECIES monachus

SUBSPECIES milleri

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