White-nosed saki

The white-nosed saki (Chiropotes albinasus) is a species of bearded saki, a type of New World monkey, endemic to the south-central Amazon rainforest in Brazil and possibly a small area east of Bolivia. Both its scientific and common name were caused by the authors working from dead specimens, where the skin on and around the nose fades to whitish.[4] In living individuals, it is actually bright pink (though with fine barely visible white hairs), and the pelage is black.[5] No other species of the genus Chiropotes have a brightly colored nose.[4]

White-nosed saki[1]
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[3]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Pitheciidae
Genus: Chiropotes
Species:
C. albinasus
Binomial name
Chiropotes albinasus
White-nosed saki range

This species is a primary consumer that mainly eats seeds, fruit, flowers, bark, insects and leaves.[6] They are a social species that tend to arrange themselves into large groups of both males and females for travel and sleep purposes.[7]

White-nosed saki

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. 146. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
  2. Pinto, L.P., Boubli, J., Buss, G., de Melo, F.R., Mittermeier, R.A., Veiga, L.M. & Wallace, R. (2020). "Chiropotes albinasus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2020: e.T4685A17976824. Retrieved 16 December 2020.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  4. Emmons, L. H. (1997). Neotropical Rainforest Mammals (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-20719-6.
  5. "Bearded saki". Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  6. Ayres, J. M. (1989). "Comparative feeding ecology of the Uakari and Bearded Saki, Cacajao and Chiropotes". Journal of Human Evolution, 18 (7): 697-716. https://doi.org/10.1016/0047-2484(89)90101-2
  7. Veiga, L.M., Ferrari, S.F. (2013). "Ecology and behavior of the bearded saki (genus Chiropotes)". In A.A Barnett., L.M Veiga., M.A Norconk & S.F Ferrari (eds.), Evolutionary biology and conservation of Titis, Sakis and Uacaris. Cambridge University Press. pp. 240-249. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139034210.028


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