Urubamba brown titi monkey

The Urubamba brown titi monkey (Plecturocebus urubambensis) is a species of titi monkey, a type of New World monkey, endemic to Peru.^[2]

Urubamba brown titi monkey
In Department of Madre de Dios, Peru
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Pitheciidae
Genus:	Plecturocebus
Species:	P. urubambensis
Binomial name
Plecturocebus urubambensis (Vermeer & Tello-Alvarado, 2015)

Taxonomy

Populations in this species were formerly classified within the brown titi (P. brunneus), but a 2015 study found it to be a distinct, undescribed species that also belonged in a different species group of Plecturocebus from P. brunneus (the P. donacophilus group), and thus described it as P. urubambensis.^[3][4][5][6] The results of this study were followed by the IUCN Red List, ITIS, and American Society of Mammalogists.^[2][7][8]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Peru, where it is found east of the Tambo River and west of the Urubamba, Manú, and Madre de Dios rivers.^[7]

Description

This species is not as grizzled as P. brunneus, and also has a varying amount of black on the head.^[7]