Black Squirrel Monkey

Black Squirrel Monkey

Taxobox
name = Black Squirrel MonkeyMSW3 Groves|pages=139]
status = VU
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006|assessors=Rylands, A.B., Bampi, M.I., Chiarello, A.G., da Fonseca, G.A.B., Mendes, S.L. & Marcelino, M.|year=2003|id=19839|title=Saimiri vanzolinii|downloaded=11 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is vulnerable]
trend = down
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cebidae
genus = "Saimiri"
species = "S. vanzolinii"
binomial = "Saimiri vanzolinii"
binomial_authority = Ayres, 1985

The Black Squirrel Monkey ("Saimiri vanzolinii"), or Blackish Squirrel Monkey, is a small New World primate, endemic to Brazil.

This squirrel monkey has one of the most restricted geographical distributions for a primate, living in the Amazonian Várzea forest in the confluence of the Japura and Solimoes rivers.

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* [http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/servlet/InfoNatura?sourceTemplate=Ltabular_report.wmt&loadTemplate=Ldetail_report.wmt&selectedReport=&summaryView=Ltabular_report.wmt&elKey=641801&paging=home&save=true&startIndex=1&nextStartIndex=1&reset=false&offPageSelectedElKey=641803&offPageSelectedElType=species&offPageYesNo=true&selectedIndexes=641803&selectedIndexes=641800&selectedIndexes=105888&selectedIndexes=641802&selectedIndexes=641801 Information about the geographical distribution of the Black Squirrel Monkey on Natureserve.com]


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