Check List 13(3): e19725, doi: 10.15560/13.3.2123
New distribution records of Pithecia rylandsi and Pithecia mittermeieri (Primates, Pitheciidae) and an updated distribution map
expand article infoVinícius Santana Orsini‡, André Valle Nunes§, Laura K. Marsh|
‡ Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia de Vertebrados. Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Avenida Dom José Gaspar, CEP 30535-610, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil., Brazil§ Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Departamento de Ecologia e Conservação, Cidade Universitária, CP 549, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil., Brazil| Global Conservation Institute, 156 County Road 113, Santa Fe, NM 87506, USA., United States of America

Corresponding author: Vinícius Orsini ( viniciusorsini_bh@hotmail.com )

© 2017 Vinícius Orsini, André Nunes, Laura Marsh.
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Citation: Nunes A, Orsini V, Marsh L (2017) New distribution records of Pithecia rylandsi and Pithecia mittermeieri (Primates, Pitheciidae) and an updated distribution map. Check List 13(3): 2123. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.3.2123
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Abstract
New locations and extension of the known geographical distributions are reported for two recently-described species of saki monkeys: Pithecia rylandsi and Pithecia mittermeieri. The record of P. rylandsi confirms the presence of this species further south in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The new record of P. mittermeieri, which occurred in an ecotone of Amazon, Cerrado, and Pantanal biomes, is the southernmost record for the genus. Recording the distribution extension of both species is essential for their conservation, as well as to promote more studies about their ecology, behaviour, and other unknown aspects of Pithecia.
Keywords
Amazonia; saki monkeys; southernmost record; species distribution; cerrado conservation