Uta Hick's bearded saki

Uta Hick’s bearded saki[1]
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Family:	Pitheciidae
Genus:	Chiropotes
Species:	C. utahicki
Binomial name
Chiropotes utahicki Hershkovitz, 1985
Uta Hick's Bearded Saki range

Uta Hick's bearded saki (Chiropotes utahicki) is an endangered species of bearded saki, a type of New World monkey. It is endemic to Brazil, where restricted to the Amazon between the Xingu and Tocantins Rivers.^[1] It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the more easternly C. satanas, but its back is pale brownish.^[3][4] The specific name is often modified to utahickae,^[1] but this has been discouraged.^[5]

References

1. Groves, 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. p. 147. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
2. Veiga, L. M.; Silva Jr., J. S.; Ferrari, S. F. & Rylands, A. B. (2008). "Chiropotes utahickae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
3. Silva Jr., J. S. and Figueiredo, W. M. B. (2002). Revisão sistemática dos cuxiús, gênero Chiropotes Lesson, 1840 (Primates Pithecidae). Livro de Resumos do XO. Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Primatologia, Amazônia – A Última Fronteira: 21. Belém, Brazil.
4. Bonvicino, C. R., Boubli, J. P., Otazú, I. B., Almeida, F. C., Nascimento, F. F., Coura, J. R. and Seuánez, H. N. (2003). Morphologic, karyotypic, and molecular evidence of a new form of Chiropotes (primates, pitheciinae). American Journal of Primatology 61(3): 123-133.
5. Brandon-Jones, D., Duckworth, J. W., Jenkins, P. D., Rylands, A. B., and Sarmiento, E. E. (2007). The genitive of species-group scientific names formed from personal names. Zootaxa 1541: 41-48.