Brief Report

Expansion of the Known Distribution of Goeldi's Monkey (Callimico goeldii) in South-Western Brazilian Amazonia
Stephen F. Fe rrari^a,f, Simone Iwanaga^c,d, Eleildon M. Ramos^d, Mari luce R. Messias^d,e, Paulo C.S. Ramos^d, Ernesto H. da Cruz Neto^b,d

Departments of
^aGenetics and
^bExperimental Psychology, Universidade Federal do Pará,
^cDepartment of Zoology, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém,
^dTecnosolo SA, Porto Velho,
^eDepartment of Zoology, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brazil;
^fDHV Consultants, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

Address of Corresponding Author

Folia Primatol 1999;70:112-116 (DOI: 10.1159/000021682)

  Key Words

• Callimico goeldii
• Goeldi's monkey
• Geographic distribution
• Habitat preference
• Conservation status
• Brazilian Amazonia

  Abstract

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Goeldi's monkey (Callimico goeldii) has been assigned to the Mace-Lande category of 'vulnerable' [1], implying that it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild, based principally on both its low population densities and highly localised pattern of distribution [2, 3]. Hershkovitz [4: fig. XII.1, p. 864] restricted the species' distribution to the west of the Rio Acre (fig. 1), a tributary of the upper Rio Purús, but speculated that it occurs as far east in Brazil as the Rio Madeira. A number of more recent studies [2, 3, 5, 6] have confirmed that the species is widely distributed in the department of Pando, in the extreme north of Bolivia (fig. 1), but studies north of the Rio Madeira [7, 8] found no evidence of its occurrence further east in Brazil, that is north and east of the Rio Acre and Rio Abunã, respectively.

  Author Contacts

Dr. Stephen F. Ferrari
Departamento de Genética/UFPa
Caixa Postal 8607
66.075-900 Belém, Pará (Brazil)
E-Mail ferrari@cuxiu.cbio.ufpa.br

  Article Information

Received: Received: February 9, 1998
Accepted: April 14, 1998
Number of Print Pages : 5
Number of Figures : 3, Number of Tables : 1, Number of References : 13