Biology:White-tailed titi monkey

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Short description: Species of New World monkey

White-tailed titi[1]
Callicebus discolor 2.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Pitheciidae
Genus: Plecturocebus
Species:
P. discolor
Binomial name
Plecturocebus discolor
(I. Geoffroy and Deville, 1848)
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White-tailed titi range
Synonyms
  • leucometopa (Cabrera, 1900)
  • napoleon Lönnberg, 1922
  • paenulatus Elliot, 1909
  • rutteri Thomas, 1923
  • subrufus Elliot, 1907

The white-tailed titi monkey (Plecturocebus discolor) is a species of titi monkey, a type of New World monkey, from South America. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.[2] It was described in 1848 as Callithrix discolor.[2]

References

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