Saimiri Voigt, 1831

Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Primates, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 243-277 : 260

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Saimiri Voigt, 1831 View in CoL . In Cuvier, Das Thierreich, 1:95.

TYPE SPECIES: Simia sciurea Linnaeus, 1758 .

SYNONYMS: Chrysothrix, Pithesciurus .

COMMENTS: Placed in a separate subfamily Saimirinae by Hershkovitz (1970a) and Napier (1976).

References

Hershkovitz, P. 1970 a. Notes on tertiary Platyrrhine monkeys and description of a new genus from the late Miocene of Colombia. Folia Primatologica, 12: 1 - 37.

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.

Napier, P. H. 1976. Catologue of primates in the British Museum (Natural History), Part 1: Families Callitrichidae and Cebidae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 121 pp.