Pitheciine Action Group
The Pitheciine Action Group (PAG) exists to promote the
study and effective conservation of the genera
Pithecia,
Chiropotes, Cacajao and Callicebus
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PUBLICATIONS PITHECIDS
Boubli, J. P., and de Lima, M. G. (2009) Modeling the geographical distribution and
fundamental niches of
Cacajao spp. and Chiropotes israelita in northwestern Amazonia via a
maximum entropy algorithm.
International Journal of Primatology 30: 217-228.

Fernandes, M. E. B. (1993) Tail wagging as a tension relief mechanism in pitheciines.
Folia
Primatologica
61: 52-56.

Figueiredo, W. (2006) Estimativas de tempos de divergência em platirrinos e filogenia
molecular e filogeografia dos uacaris, parauacus e cuxius. Ph.D. Thesis. Belém do Pará:
Universidade Federal Do Pará, Brazil.

Kinzey, W. G. (1992) Dietary and dental adaptations in the Pitheciinae.
American Journal of
Physical Anthropology
88: 499-514.

Kinzey W.G., Norconk M.A. (1993) Physical and chemical properties of fruit and seeds eaten
by
Pithecia and Chiropotes in Surinam and Venezuela. International Journal of Primatology
14: 207–227.

Kinzey, W.G. (1997)
New World primates: ecology, evolution and behavior. New York:
Aldine de Gruyter.

Kinzey, W.G. & Norconk, M.A. (1990) Hardness as a basis of fruit choice in two sympatric
primates.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81: 5-15.

Ledogar, J.Á. (2009) Postcanine occlusal loading and relative dental arcade width in
pithecine  primates.  
American Journal of Physical Anthropology  (Suppl 48): 173.

Meldrum, D.J & R.F Kay (1997) Nuciruptor rubricae, a new Pitheciin seed predator
from the seed predators.
American Journal of Primatology, 45:103-126.

Norconk, M. A. (2007). Sakis, uakaris, and titi monkeys. In: Campbell, C. J.,
Fuentes, A., MacKinnon, K., Panger, M. & Bearder, S. (Eds.),
Primates in
perspective
(pp. 123-138). New York: Oxford University Press.

Rylands A. B. & Mittermeier, R. A. (2009). The diversity of the New World
primates (Platyrrhini): an annotated taxonomy. In: Garber, P. A., Estrada, A.,
Bicca-Marques, J. C., Heymann, E. & Strier, K. B. (Eds.).
South American primates:
comparative perspectives in the study of behavior, ecology and conservation
(pp.
23-54). New York: Springer Science and Business Media press.