Urubamba brown titi monkey
Species of New World monkey
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The Urubamba brown titi monkey (Plecturocebus urubambensis) is a species of titi monkey, a type of New World monkey, endemic to Peru.[2]
| Urubamba brown titi monkey | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Pitheciidae |
| Genus: | Plecturocebus |
| Species: | P. urubambensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Plecturocebus urubambensis (Vermeer & Tello-Alvarado, 2015) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Callicebus urubambensis | |
Taxonomy
Populations in this species were formerly classified within the brown titi (P. brunneus), but a 2015 study found it to be a distinct, undescribed species that also belonged in a different species group of Plecturocebus from P. brunneus (the P. donacophilus group), and thus described it as P. urubambensis.[3][4][5][6] The results of this study were followed by the IUCN Red List, ITIS, and American Society of Mammalogists.[2][1][7]
Distribution
This species is endemic to Peru, where it is found east of the Tambo River and west of the Urubamba, Manú, and Madre de Dios rivers.[1]
Description
This species is not as grizzled as P. brunneus, and also has a varying amount of black on the head.[1]