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Issue: Vol. 3507 No. 1: 5 Oct. 2012
Type: Article
Published: 2012-10-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3507.1.4
Page range: 79–83
Abstract views: 52
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A proposal for the common names for species of Chiropotes (Pitheciinae: Primates)

Centre for Research in Evolutionary and Environmental Anthropology, Roehampton University, London, England Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brazil
Curso de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação da Biodiversidade Amazônica, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Manaus, AM, Brazil
Faculdade de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Dept. Biologia, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, São Cristóvão, SE, Brazil
Dept. Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
Dept. Mastozoologia, Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil
Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Casilla 567, Valdivia, Chile
Instituto Florestal de São Paulo, Estação Experimental de Bauru, SP, Brazil
Centro de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais, Universidade Federal de Maranhão, Chapadinha, MA, Brazil
Dept. Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, PA, Brazil
Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brazil
Dept. Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, PA, Brazil
Programa de Pós Graduação em Zoologia do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, PA, Brazil
Dept. Biology, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Mammalia Bearded saki Chiropotes Cuxiú Pithecidae

Abstract

The common English name for the genus Chiropotes is currently bearded saki. We propose the use of "cuxiu" as the common name for Chiropotes species, arguing that this term not only has deeper cultural and historical roots, but would mesh with the common name currently in use over the vast majority of the genus range. Cuxiu (pronounced "coosh-e-oo") would be phylogenetically and taxonomically more appropriate, and less ambiguous, than the currently used term, and remove the implied close affiliation between Pithecia and Chiropotes. Finally, as an indigenously-derived name, it would fit with the common names in use for the other two genera in the sub-family Pitheciinae (uacari, Cacajao; saki, Pithecia), both of which also have indigenous origins.

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