Pithecia pithecia (Linnaeus, 1766) . Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:40.

TYPE LOCALITY: French Guiana, Cayenne .

DISTRIBUTION: Guyana; French Guiana; Surinam; N Amazon, east of Rio Negro and Rio Orinoco (N Brazil, S Venezuela).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: adusta, capillimentosa, chrysocephala, leucocephala, lotichiusi, ochrocephala, pongonias, rufibarbata, rufiventer .