Plecturocebus discolor Geoffroy Saint-Hillaire and Deville 1848 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Pitheciidae

Alternative combinations: Callicebus discolor, Callithrix discolor

Full reference: I. Geoffroy Saint-Hillaire and Deville. 1848. Note sur huit espèces nouvelles de Singes américains faisant partie des collections de MM. de Castelnau et Émile Deville. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences 27:497-499

Belongs to Plecturocebus according to H. Byrne et al. 2016

See also Geoffroy Saint-Hillaire and Deville 1848 and Wilson and Reeder 2005

Sister taxa: Plecturocebus aureipalatii, Plecturocebus baptista, Plecturocebus bernhardi, Plecturocebus brunneus, Plecturocebus caligatus, Plecturocebus caquetensis, Plecturocebus cinerascens, Plecturocebus cupreus, Plecturocebus donacophilus, Plecturocebus hoffmannsi, Plecturocebus miltoni, Plecturocebus modestus, Plecturocebus moloch, Plecturocebus oenanthe, Plecturocebus olallae, Plecturocebus ornatus, Plecturocebus pallescens, Plecturocebus stephennashi, Plecturocebus toppini, Plecturocebus urubambensis, Plecturocebus vieirai

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Plecturocebus discolor in the database

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