Critically Endangered
Caquetá titi monkey
Plecturocebus caquetensis
The Caquetá titi monkey, also known as the red-bearded titi or the bushy-bearded titi, is a titi monkey endemic to Colombia found in the Department of Caquetá region.
Appearance
Its fur is generally brown, with a lighter tail and chestnut-red undersides, neck and cheeks. It is similar in appearance to the ornate titi and white-tailed titi except that it does not have a white forehead bar, nor does it have the white hands and feet of the ornate titi.
Its body is approximately 35 cm long and its tail 61 cm, it weighs between 800 and 1400 g.
It was first described by Thomas Defler, Marta Bueno and Javier Garcia in 2010.
Range and habitat
The species occurs between the Río Orteguaza and the Río Caquetá in the Colombian Department of Caquetá at altitudes between 190 and 260 m, but the exact distribution area is still unknown. The Caquetá titi monkey, also known as the red-bearded titi or the bushy-bearded titi, is a titi monkey endemic to Colombia found in the Department of Caquetá region. It is highly endangered due to habitat fragmentation and a small population.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
In the paper describing the species, the authors recommend that the species be classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). According to the authors' estimate, the population size of the species may be fewer than 250 adult animals. P. Caquetensis has been listed among the World's 25 Most Endangered Primates in 2017.
Caquetá titi monkey is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Caquetá titi monkey, Wikidata item Q56116516. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
