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Saimiri sciureus (common squirrel monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Cebidae

Taxonomy
Simia sciurea was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Callithrix sciureus by Owen (1853); it was recombined as Saimiri sciureus by Thomas (1911), Allen (1916).