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GENUS Cacajao

Author:Lesson, 1840.
Citation:Spec. Mamm. Bim. et Quadrum.: 181.
Type Species:Simia melanocephalus Humboldt, 1812.
Comments:Revised by Hershkovitz (1987c). Reduced to a subgenus of Chiropotes by Goodman et al. (1998).
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Offspring:

SPECIES calvus

SUBSPECIES calvus

SUBSPECIES novaesi

SUBSPECIES rubicundus

SUBSPECIES ucayalii

SPECIES melanocephalus

Synonyms:

    Brachyurus Spix, 1823
    Cercoptochus Gloger, 1842
    Cothurus Palmer, 1899
    Neocothurus Palmer, 1903
    Ouakaria Gray, 1849

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