Family PITHECIIDAE

(TITIS, SAKIS AND UACARIS)

* Small to medium-sized monkeys with hindlimbs longer than forelimbs, short canines or robust anterior dentition with large, splayed canines, short, dense or long, soft, coarse fur, and tail tapering, longer than body, long and bushy, or short and bushy.

• 70-100 cm.

* Neotropical Region

* Humid submontane and lowland tropical, dry semideciduous and deciduous, gallery, and Chacoan forests and scrub.

* 4 genera, 44 species, at least 52 extant taxa.

* 4 species Critically Endangered, 5 species Endangered, 6 species Vulnerable; 1 species Extinct since 1600.