Uta Hick’s bearded saki | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Family: | Pitheciidae |
Genus: | Chiropotes |
Species: | C. utahicki |
Binomial name | |
Chiropotes utahicki Hershkovitz, 1985 |
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Uta Hick's Bearded Saki range |
Uta Hick's bearded saki (Chiropotes utahicki) is an endangered species of bearded saki, a type of New World monkey. It is endemic to Brazil, where restricted to the Amazon between the Xingu and . It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the more easternly C. satanas, but its back is pale brownish. The specific name is often modified to utahickae, but this has been discouraged.