Miller's saki

Miller's saki (Pithecia milleri), also known as Miller's monk saki,[1] is a species of saki monkey, a type of New World monkey. Its range includes parts of southwestern Colombia, northeastern Ecuador, and perhaps adjacent areas in Peru.[2] This species was originally described as a species by J. A. Allen, demoted to a subspecies of the monk saki (P. monachus) in 1987,[3][4] and raised back to full species status in 2014.[2] Confusion over the taxonomy of saki monkeys has arisen in part due to poorly labeled or mislabeled museum specimens.[2] Males and females of this species, like those of other sakis, have differently colored pelage, with the females being more grayish in the face and overall, and the males a darker, grizzled black but with brown in the face and forearms.[2]

Miller's saki[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Pitheciidae
Genus: Pithecia
Species:
P. milleri
Binomial name
Pithecia milleri
J. A. Allen, 1914

References
  1. Marsh, L.K., Link, A., Moscoso, P., Palacios, E., Stevenson, P.R. & de la Torre, S. (2020). "Pithecia milleri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T17407A17991803. Retrieved 10 July 2020.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. Marsh, L. K. (July 2014). "A Taxonomic Revision of the Saki Monkeys, Pithecia Desmarest, 1804". Neotropical Primates. 21 (1): 1–165. doi:10.1896/044.021.0101.
  3. 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.
  4. Groves, C. P. (2005). "Pithecia monachus milleri". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 147–148. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.


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