NEOTROPICAL PRIMATES
Journal and Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group
Vol. 8(1), March, 2000
EDITORIAL
Neotropical Primates has taken on a new role - doubling as a journal while
maintaining its main function as a newsletter for the Primate Specialist
Group membership as well as for Neotropical primate researchers, zookeepers
and conservationists worldwide. Our intention is to include up to two or
three peer-reviewed articles. These will be limited to aspects directly
dealing with or linked to the systematics and taxonomy, biogeography,
ecology and conservation of the platyrrhines. For this reason, we are
pleased to welcome a number of renowned Neotropical primatologists with
enormous experience in these areas as our new Editorial Board. They have
kindly accepted to play a special role in helping us to glean articles and
information of importance for Neotropical primate studies and conservation,
and to maintain, raise even, the standards we are hoping to achieve.
Besides the change into part-journal, moving the editorial office to the
Center for Applied Biodiversity Science (CABS) at Conservation
International (CI), Washington, DC, has been the reason for the delays in
the publication of Neotropical Primates - for which we apologize. Remedying
this situation, we are also pleased to welcome on board Jennifer Pervola,
who is now the Assistant Editor and, by the way, is also helping Gustavo
Fonseca with the editing of another SSC Specialist Group newsletter for the
Neotropics - Edentata. Please send your contributions, and news items and
announcements relevant to Neotropical primates (as well as sloths,
armadillos and anteaters) to her at CABS/CI.
In this issue, we are publishing the descriptions of two new marmoset
species, following six which have already been described from the basin of
the Rio Madeira in the Brazilian Amazon in recent years: Callithrix
intermedius in 1977, C. nigriceps and C. mauesi in 1992, C. marcai in 1993,
C. saterei in 1998, and C. humilis in 1999. There are a further two
articles, one by Alejandro Estrada and co-workers on a population of black
howler monkeys, Alouatta pigra, at Parque Nacional Zona Arqueologica de
Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico, and a second by Robert Wallace and co-workers
on the primates of the Rios Blanco y Negro Wildlife Reserve in Bolivia.
The following issue, 8(2), of Neotropical Primates will be dedicated to a
taxonomic listing of the Platyrrhini; results of the workshop "Primate
Taxonomy for the New Millennium", organized by the PSG, and kindly hosted
by the Disney Institute in Orlando, Florida in February of this year. The
aims of this Workshop were to provide the fullest assessment of primate
diversity with our current knowledge, and especially considering the
numerous contributions and revelations of genetic studies in the last
decade. A full listing of the primates, be they species or subspecies, is a
vital first step for the establishment of conservation priorities and the
full assessment of the Order for the IUCN/SSC Red List. In no way are we
imposing a "definitive taxonomy" and wherever there is disagreement or
doubt, we hope it will stimulate substantiated discussion and further
research, especially into such poorly understood genera as Alouatta and Cebus.
Please send us short articles, as well as your publications, information
about events, research programs, field sites, announcements, theses and
dissertations, and Society activities, so that we can fulfill our mission
of disseminating a wide range of valuable information for the conservation
of primates and their forests in the New World.
Anthony B. Rylands
Ernesto Rodriguez-Luna
VOL. 8(1), MARCH, 2000
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial - Anthony B. Rylands and Ernesto Rodriguez-Luna.....1
Articles
Two new species of marmoset, genus Callithrix Erxleben, 1777
(Callitrichidae, Primates), from the Tapajos/Madeira interflavium, south
Central Amazonia, Brazil
Marc G. M. van Roosmalen, Tomas van Roosmalen, Russell A.
Mittermeier and Anthony B. Rylands.....2
Reconocimiento de la poblacion del mono aullador negro (Alouatta pigra) en
Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico
Alejandro Estrada, Rosamond Coates-Estrada, Lucia Castellanos,
Andromeda Rivera, Hector Gonzalez, Ana Ibarra, Yasminda Garcia, David Munoz
and Berenice Franco.....19
Primate diversity, distribution and relative abundances in the Rios Blanco
y Negro Wildlife Reserve, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia
Robert B. Wallace, R. Lilian E. Painter, Damian I. Rumiz and
Andrew B. Taber.....24
Short Articles
Novos registros de Alouatta no estado do Ceara (Primates, Atelidae)
Patricia G Guedes, Diva M. Borges-Nojosa, Juliana A. G da Silva
and Leandro 0. Salles.....29
Nova ocorrencia de Brachyteles arachnoides no Parque Estadual da Serra do
Mar, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Paulo Auricchio and Marco Aurelio Ferreira da Silva.....30
Female dispersal in the Belizean black howling monkey (Alouatta pigra)
Robin C. Brockett, Robert Horwich and Clara B. Jones.....32
Update on the status of the Margarita Island capuchin, Cebus apella margaritae
Romari A. Marhnez, Rosa A. Moscarella, Marisol Aguilera and Eladio
Marquez.....34
Primate records from the Potaro Plateau, Western Guyana, including the
first for Cebus albifrons east of the Rio Branco, Brazil
Adrian A. Barnett, Becca Shapley, Shawn Lehman, Mireya Mayor,
Everton Henry, Paul Benjamin, Michael McGarrill and Ruford Nagala.....35
Survey of Alouatta palliata at the Bilsa Biological Reserve, north-west Ecuador
Sylvain Charlat, Oliver R. Thatcher, Nils Hartmann, Yogen G.
Patel, Marjorie Saillan and Elsbeth Vooren.....40
Demography of a group of tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella nigritus) at
the Estacao Biologica de Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Jessica Ward Lynch and Jose Rimoli.....44
News.....49
Primate Societies.....55
Recent Publications.....56
Meetings.....59
NEOTROPICAL PRIMATES Vol. 8(2), August, 2000
TABLE OF CONTENTS
An Assessment of the Diversity of New World Primates [Topic of this issue]
Anthony B. Rylands, Horacio Schneider, Alfredo Langguth, Russell A. Mittermeier
Colin P. Groves and Ernesto Rodriguez-Luna.....61-93
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