Black-capped squirrel monkey
| Black-capped squirrel monkey[1] | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Cebidae |
| Genus: | Saimiri |
| Species: | S. boliviensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Saimiri boliviensis (I. Geoffroy and Blainville, 1834) | |
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| Geographic range | |
The black-capped squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis) is a South American squirrel monkey, found in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru. This South American monkey can be found in numerous zoos (with over 80 zoos keeping them in Europe alone, the majority of them being of the Bolivian subspecies) around the world, including the Ellen Trout Zoo, London Zoo, Apenheul Primate Park, Copenhagen Zoo and Auckland Zoo.
Subspecies
- Bolivian squirrel monkey, Saimiri boliviensis boliviensis
- Peruvian squirrel monkey, Saimiri boliviensis peruviensis
References
- ↑ 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. 138. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ Wallace, R.B.; Cornejo, F. & Rylands, A.B. (2008). "Saimiri boliviensis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2008: e.T41536A10494082. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T41536A10494082.en. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
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- View the squirrel monkey genome in Ensembl
- View the saiBol1 genome assembly in the UCSC Genome Browser.
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