Pithecia monachus (E. Geoffroy, 1812) . Rec. Observ. Zool. 1:359.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Rio Madeira .

DISTRIBUTION: West of Rio Jurua and Rio Japura-Caqueta (in Brazil), Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

COMMENT: Does not include albicans or hirsuta, see Hershkovitz, 1979, Folia Primatol., 31:1 -22, and also for discussion of type locality.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Order Primates .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301406006005001001.