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Pitheciidae
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The Pitheciidae (/pɪθɪˈsaɪ.ɪdiː/) are one of the five families of New World monkeys now recognised. Formerly, they were included in the family Atelidae. The family includes the titis, saki monkeys and uakaris. Most species are native to the Amazon region of Brazil, with some being found from Colombia in the north to Bolivia in the south.

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Characteristics

Pitheciids are small to medium-sized monkeys, ranging from 23 cm in head-body length for the smaller titis, to 44–49 cm for the uakaris. They have medium to long fur, in a wide range of colors, often with contrasting patches, especially on the face.

They are diurnal and arboreal animals, found in tropical forests from low-lying swamp to mountain slopes. They are predominantly herbivorous, eating mostly fruit and seeds, although some species will also eat a small number of insects. Sakis and uakaris have a diastema between the canine and premolar teeth, but the titis, which have unusually small canines for New World monkeys, do not.cite-ref-eom-2-0[2] All species have the dental formula: 2.1.3.32.1.3.3

Females give birth to a single young after a gestation period of between four and six months, depending on species. The uakaris and bearded sakis are polygamous, living in groups of 8-30 individuals. Each group has multiple males, which establish a dominance hierarchy amongst themselves. The titis and Pithecia sakis, by contrast, are monogamous and live in much smaller family groups.cite-ref-eom-2-1[2]

Classification

There are 54 currently recognized extant species of pitheciid monkey, grouped into two subfamilies and six genera.cite-ref-msw3-1-1[1]cite-ref-boubli2008-3-0[3] Eleven extinct genera known from the fossil record are placed in the family, extending the age of the family to the Miocene.cite-ref-tpbdb-4-0[4]cite-ref-silvestro-5-0[5]

Family Pitheciidae: titis, sakis and uakaris

• Subfamily Callicebinae, titis

• Genus Plecturocebus

White-eared titi, Plecturocebus donacophilus
Rio Beni titi, Plecturocebus modestus
Rio Mayo titi, Plecturocebus oenanthe
Ollala brothers's titi, Plecturocebus olallae
White-coated titi, Plecturocebus pallescens
Urubamba brown titi, Plecturocebus urubambensis
Baptista Lake titi, Plecturocebus baptista
Prince Bernhard's titi, Plecturocebus bernhardi
Brown titi, Plecturocebus brunneus
Parecis titi, Plecturocebus parecis
Ashy black titi, Plecturocebus cinerascens
Hoffmanns's titi, Plecturocebus hoffmannsi
Red-bellied titi, Plecturocebus moloch
Vieira's titi, Plecturocebus vieirai
Milton's titi, Plecturocebus miltoni
Chestnut-bellied titi, Plecturocebus caligatus
Coppery titi, Plecturocebus cupreus
Toppin's titi, Plecturocebus toppini
Madidi titi, Plecturocebus aureipalatii
Caquetá titi, Plecturocebus caquetensis
White-tailed titi, Plecturocebus discolor
Hershkovitz's titi, Plecturocebus dubius
Ornate titi, Plecturocebus ornatus
Stephen Nash's titi, Plecturocebus stephennashi
Alta Floresta titi, Plecturocebus grovesi

• Genus Callicebus

Barbara Brown's titi, Callicebus barbarabrownae
Coimbra Filho's titi, Callicebus coimbrai
Coastal black-handed titi, Callicebus melanochir
Black-fronted titi, Callicebus nigrifrons
Atlantic titi, Callicebus personatus

• Genus †Miocallicebus


• Genus Cheracebus

Lucifer titi, Cheracebus lucifer
Black titi, Cheracebus lugens
Colombian black-handed titi, Cheracebus medemi
Red-headed titi, Cheracebus regulus
Collared titi, Cheracebus torquatus

• Genus †Carlocebus

• †Carlocebus carmenensis
• †Carlocebus intermedius

• Genus †Homunculus


• Subfamily Pitheciinae

• Genus Cacajao, uakaris

Black-headed uakari, Cacajao melanocephalus
Bald uakari, Cacajao calvus
Aracá uakari, Cacajao ayresiicite-ref-boubli2008-3-1[3]
Neblina uakari, Cacajao hosomicite-ref-boubli2008-3-2[3]

• Genus †Cebupithecia

• †Cebupithecia sarmientoi

• Genus Chiropotes, bearded sakis

Black bearded saki, Chiropotes satanas
Red-backed bearded saki, Chiropotes chiropotes
Brown-backed bearded saki, Chiropotes israelita
Uta Hick's bearded saki, Chiropotes utahickae
White-nosed saki, Chiropotes albinasus

• Genus †Nuciruptor

• †Nuciruptor rubricae

• Genus †Mazzonicebus

• †Mazzonicebus almendrae

• Genus Pithecia, sakis

Equatorial saki, Pithecia aequatorialis
White-footed saki or buffy saki, Pithecia albicans
Cazuza's saki, Pithecia cazuzai
Golden-faced saki, Pithecia chrysocephala
Hairy saki, Pithecia hirsuta
Burnished saki, Pithecia inusta
Rio Tapajós saki or Gray's bald-faced saki, Pithecia irrorata
Isabel's saki, Pithecia isabela
Monk saki, Pithecia monachus
Miller's saki, Pithecia milleri
Mittermeier's Tapajós saki, Pithecia mittermeieri (disputed)cite-ref-serrano20192-6-0[6]
Napo saki, Pithecia napensis
Pissinatti's saki, Pithecia pissinattii (disputed)cite-ref-serrano20192-6-1[6]
White-faced saki, Pithecia pithecia
Rylands' bald-faced saki, Pithecia rylandsi (disputed)cite-ref-serrano20192-6-2[6]
Vanzolini's bald-faced saki, Pithecia vanzolinii

• Genus †Proteropithecia

• †Proteropithecia neuquenensis

• Genus †Soriacebus

• †Soriacebus ameghinorum
• †Soriacebus adrianae

• †Genus Xenothrix

• †Jamaican monkey, Xenothrix mcgregori

• †Genus Antillothrix

• †Hispaniolan monkey, Antillothrix bernensis

• †Genus Insulacebus

• †Insulacebus toussentiana

*Newly described species.cite-ref-boubli2008-3-3[3] †Extinct taxa.

Silvestro etal 2017 showed the relationship among the extinct and extant pitheciid genera:cite-ref-silvestro-5-1[5]

References

cite-note-msw3-11. citerefgroves2005Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 141–148. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
cite-note-eom-22. citerefmacdonald-d-1984Macdonald, D., ed. (1984). The Encyclopedia of Mammals. New York: Facts on File. pp. 358–361. ISBN 0-87196-871-1.
cite-note-boubli2008-33. citerefboubli-j-p-m-n-f-da-silvam-v-amadot-hrbek2008Boubli, J. P.; M. N. F. Da Silva; M. V. Amado; T. Hrbek; F. B. Pontual; I. P. Farias (2008). "A Taxonomic Reassessment of Cacajao melanocephalus Humboldt (1811), with the Description of Two New Species". International Journal of Primatology. 29 (3): 723–741. doi:10.1007/s10764-008-9248-7. S2CID 26561719.
cite-note-tpbdb-44. The Paleobiology Database Pitheciidae entry accessed on 6 April 2010
cite-note-silvestro-55. citerefsilvestrotejedorserrano-serranoloiseau2017Silvestro, Daniele; Tejedor, Marcelo F.; Serrano Serrano, Martha L.; Loiseau, Oriane; Rossier, Victor; Rolland, Jonathan; Zizka, Alexander; Antonelli, Alexandre; Salamin, Nicolas (2017). "Evolutionary history of New World monkeys revealed by molecular and fossil data". bioRxiv 10.1101/178111.
cite-note-serrano20192-66. citerefserrano-villavicenciomurtadovendrameloliveira-do-nascimento2019Serrano-Villavicencio, J.E.; Murtado, C.M.; Vendramel, R.L.; Oliveira do Nascimento, F. (January 2019). "Reconsidering the taxonomy of the Pithecia irrorata species group (Primates: Pitheciidae)". Journal of Mammalogy. 100 (1): 130–141. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyy167.

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