Barbara Brown's titi monkey

Barbara Brown's titi[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Pitheciidae
Genus: Callicebus
Species:
C. barbarabrownae
Binomial name
Callicebus barbarabrownae
(Hershkovitz, 1990)
Geographic range

Barbara Brown's titi monkey (Callicebus barbarabrownae), also popularly known as the blond titi monkey or northern Bahian blond titi,[2] is a species of titi, a type of New World monkey. This critically endangered species is endemic to the Caatinga in northeastern Brazil, and it is estimated that less than 250 mature individuals remain.[2] It is named after the zoologist Barbara Elaine Russell Brown.[3]

  1. ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). "Order Primates". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 141–142. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ a b c Printes, R.C.; Jerusalinsky, L.; Alonso, A.C.; Mittermeier, R.A. (2021). "Callicebus barbarabrownae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T39929A191703041. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T39929A191703041.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009). The eponym dictionary of mammals. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-8018-9533-3. OCLC 593239356.