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The pigments are produced by melanocytes which deposit the pigments into the medulla of growing hair so that the hair grows with the color of that distinct pigment. The characteristic pigment of the Callicebus is eumelanin (dark brown or black) found in the iris, skin, and hair (usually on the forehead, crown and tail).
The titis, or titi monkeys, are New World monkeys of the subfamily Callicebinae, which contains three extant genera: Cheracebus, Callicebus, and Plecturocebus. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This subfamily also contains the extinct genera Miocallicebus , Homunculus , and Carlocebus .
CNPRC currently houses about 4,700 monkeys, the majority of which are rhesus macaques, with a small population of South American titi monkeys. The center, located on 300 acres (1.2 km 2) 2.5 miles west of the UC Davis campus, is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Prince Bernhard's titi monkey (Plecturocebus bernhardi), also called the zog-zog monkey, [2] [3] [4] is a species of titi monkey in the genus Plecturocebus, first described in 2002. It is named after Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. They have varying coloration of gray, black, and agouti, with dark orange in certain regions.
The black-fronted titi monkey (Callicebus nigrifrons) is a species of titi, a type of New World monkey. The black-fronted titi is a small diurnal primate. [ 3 ] The body of this primate is covered in grey to brown fur with black fur concentrated around the face, the tail is slightly orange in color.
Here's another list of monkeys: platyrrhines, or "New World monkeys", #5 in the order Primates and #34 overall for mammals. This took a while; the last couple of lists were 14 and 28 species, but this one is a much larger 160. Turns out South America is filled with a wide variety of little monkeys!
Brown spider monkey (Ateles hybridus) Platyrrhini is a parvorder of primates. Members of this parvorder are called platyrrhines, or New World monkeys, and include marmosets, tamarins, and capuchin, squirrel, night, titi, saki, howler, spider, and woolly monkeys. Platyrrhini is one of three clades that form the suborder Haplorrhini, itself one of two suborders in the order Primates. They are ...
The brown titi monkey (Plecturocebus brunneus) is a species of titi monkey, a type of New World monkey, from South America. It is endemic to Brazil . [ 3 ] It was originally described as Callicebus brunneus in 1842 and transferred to the newly erected genus Plecturocebus in 2016.