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Analysis of the hypothetical population structure of the squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii) in Panama

By Ariel Rodríguez-Vargas

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2003
ISBN
9781475737721
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
154 kB (158068 bytes)
Edition
First
Pages
53-62\10
Topic
Biology Ecology
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2020-09-24 13:39:12
cebidaemetapopulationNon-human PrimatespanamapopulationPrimatesSaimiriSquirrel Monkeysubpopulation

Description

The Central American squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii) is an endemic species from the coast of the Pacific Ocean to southeast Costa Rica and southwest Panamá (Hershkovitz, 1984). Three common species (S. ustus, S. sciureus, and S. boliviensis) are found in South America and are distributed in the tropical forests of the Guayanas, the Amazon basin, the high Orinoco, and the high Magdalena (Hershkovitz, 1984). Nine taxas are distinguished at the level of subspecies, of which two correspond to the Central American species (Saimiri o. oerstedii and Saimiri o. citrinellus) (Hershkovitz 1984). In Panamá only the subspecies S. o. oerstedii is found. The squirrel monkey is exclusively arboreal and uses a great variety of habitat (Figure 1). It mainly exploits the lower and middle forest canopy. This primate forms the largest and most cohesive groups unlike any other Neotropical primate (Kinsey, 1997). They are mainly insectivorous and frugivorous (Kinsey, 1997).

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