Plecturocebus
Genus of New World monkeys
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Plecturocebus is one of three genera of titi monkeys.
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| Plecturocebus | |
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| Brown titi (Plecturocebus brunneus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Family: | Pitheciidae |
| Subfamily: | Callicebinae |
| Genus: | Plecturocebus Byrne, Rylands, Carneiro, Lynch Alfaro, Bertuol, da Silva, Messias, Groves, Mittermeier, Farias, Hrbek, Schneider, Sampaio & Boubli, 2016 |
| Type species | |
| Cebus moloch[1] Hoffmannsegg, 1807 | |
| Species | |
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Historically, titi monkeys were considered monogeneric, being placed in a single genus: Callicebus Thomas, 1903. Owing to the great diversity found across titi monkey species, a new genus-level taxonomy was proposed in 2016 that recognises three genera within the subfamily Callicebinae; Plecturocebus Byrne et al., 2016 for the Amazonian and Chaco titis of the moloch and donacophilus groups; Cheracebus Byrne et al., 2016 for the species of the torquatus group (Widow titis); and Callicebus Thomas, 1903 sensu stricto, for species of the Atlantic Forest personatus group.[1]
Plecturocebus is derived from the Latin forms of three Greek words: plektos, meaning twist or plait, oura, meaning tail, and kebos, meaning long-tailed monkey. All together, this refers to the behavior of many titi monkeys to intertwine their tails when they sit next to each other.[1]
Species
There are 25 species in this genus:
- P. donacophilus group
- White-eared titi monkey, Plecturocebus donacophilus
- Rio Beni titi monkey, Plecturocebus modestus
- Rio Mayo titi monkey, Plecturocebus oenanthe
- Olalla brothers' titi monkey, Plecturocebus olallae
- White-coated titi monkey, Plecturocebus pallescens
- Urubamba brown titi monkey, Plecturocebus urubambensis[2]
- P. moloch group
- Madidi titi monkey, Plecturocebus aureipalatii
- Baptista Lake titi monkey, Plecturocebus baptista
- Prince Bernhard's titi monkey, Plecturocebus bernhardi
- Brown titi monkey, Plecturocebus brunneus
- Chestnut-bellied titi monkey, Plecturocebus caligatus
- Caquetá titi monkey, Plecturocebus caquetensis
- Ashy black titi monkey, Plecturocebus cinerascens
- Coppery titi monkey, Plecturocebus cupreus
- White-tailed titi monkey, Plecturocebus discolor
- Hershkovitz's titi monkey, Plecturocebus dubius
- Alta Floresta titi monkey, Plecturocebus grovesi[3]
- Hoffmanns's titi monkey, Plecturocebus hoffmannsi
- Milton's titi monkey, Plecturocebus miltoni[4][5]
- Red-bellied titi monkey, Plecturocebus moloch
- Ornate titi monkey, Plecturocebus ornatus
- Parecis titi monkey, Plecturocebus parecis[6]
- Stephen Nash's titi monkey, Plecturocebus stephennashi
- Toppin's titi monkey, Plecturocebus toppini[2]
- Vieira's titi monkey, Plecturocebus vieirai[7]
