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SPECIES Saimiri oerstedii

Author:Reinhardt, 1872.
Citation:Vidensk. Medd. Nat. Hist. Kjobenhaven: 157.
Common Name:Central American Squirrel Monkey
Type Locality:Panama, Chiriquí, vicinity of David.
Distribution:Panama, Costa Rica.
Status:CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered as S. o. citrinellus, Endangered as Saimiri o. oerstedii.
Comments:S. sciureus species group. Hershkovitz (1972a) considered oerstedii a subspecies of sciureus; but see Hershkovitz (1984).
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SUBSPECIES oerstedii

SUBSPECIES citrinellus

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