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Saimiri (squirrel monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Cebidae

Taxonomy

Saimiri was named by Voigt (1831). It is extant.

It was assigned to Saimiriinae by Hershkovitz (1974) and Wilson and Reeder (2005); to Cebinae by Rosenberger (1979) and Opazo et al. (2006); and to Cebidae by Burgin et al. (2018).

Species

Neosaimiri annectens, Neosaimiri fieldsi, S. boliviensis, S. cassiquiarensis, S. collinsi, S. macrodon (syn. S. caquetensis), S. oerstedii, S. sciureus, S. ustus, S. vanzolinii, Simia morta

Synonyms

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

It was considered a nomen dubium by Thomas (1911).
Laventiana was named by Rosenberger et al. (1991). It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Neosaimiri by Takai (1994), Meldrum and Kay (1997) and Kay and Meldrum (1997).

It was assigned to Cebinae by Rosenberger et al. (1991).
Neosaimiri was named by Stirton (1951). It is considered to be a form taxon.

It was synonymized subjectively with Saimiri by Rosenberger et al. (1991).

It was assigned to Saimiriinae by Hershkovitz (1974); and to Cebidae by McKenna and Bell (1997).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Simia morta Linnaeus p. 29
1831	Saimiri Voigt
1951	Neosaimiri Stirton
1974	Neosaimiri Hershkovitz
1974	Saimiri Hershkovitz
1979	Saimiri Rosenberger p. 417
1991	Laventiana Rosenberger et al. p. 2137
1997	Neosaimiri McKenna and Bell
2005	Saimiri Wilson and Reeder
2006	Saimiri Opazo et al. p. 277
2018	Saimiri Burgin et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()

Rank	Name	Author
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Euarchonta
order	Primates
infraorder	Haplorhini	(Pocock 1918)
—	Anthropoidea	(Mivart 1864)
infraorder	Platyrrhini	Geoffroy 1812
family	Cebidae
genus	Saimiri	Voigt 1831

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Saimiri Voigt 1831 [squirrel monkey]

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Saimiri boliviensis Geoffroy Saint-Hillaire and de Blainville 1834

Saimiri cassiquiarensis Lesson 1840

Saimiri collinsi Osgood 1916

Saimiri macrodon Elliot 1907

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Invalid names: Saimiri caquetensis Allen 1916 [synonym]

Saimiri oerstedii Reinhardt 1872

Saimiri sciureus Linnaeus 1758 [common squirrel monkey]

Saimiri ustus Geoffroy 1843 [bare-eared squirrel monkey]

Saimiri vanzolinii Ayres 1985

Invalid names: Neosaimiri Stirton 1951 [synonym], Simia morta Linnaeus 1758 [nomen dubium]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean
p2 height	1	3.00
p2 diameter	1	2.60
p3 height	1	3.00
p3 diameter	1	2.40
p4 height	1	2.50
p4 diameter	1	2.70
m2 diameter	1	2.80
Canine height	1	4.70
Distal Humerus Medial trochlea height	1	4.33
Distal Humerus lateral trochlea height	1	3.57
Talar height	1	4.13
Talar body height	1	2.72
Talar head height	1	2.95
talar body height	1	3.58

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialg

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

arborealg

Diet:

frugivoref

Diet 2:

omnivoref

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2013-05-09 01:26:09

Modified:

2013-05-08 10:26:09

Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Nakatsukasa et al. 1997

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Santacrucian to the top of the Holocene or 17.50000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 16.3 Ma

Collections (11 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Santacrucian	17.5 - 16.3	Peru (Cusco)	Saimiri sp. (145126)
Serravallian	13.82 - 11.62	Peru (San Martin)	Neosaimiri fieldsi (230802)
Laventan	13.8 - 11.0	Colombia (Huila)	Neosaimiri annectens (187892) Neosaimiri fieldsi (133688 186573 186605 188244 188245)
Laventan	13.8 - 11.0	Colombia (Huilla)	Neosaimiri fieldsi (187890)
Laventan	13.8 - 11.0	Colombia	Neosaimiri annectens (13686)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Peru	Saimiri sciureus (21689)