Golden-faced saki

Golden-faced saki (Pithecia chrysocephala) is a saki monkey in the genus Pithecia, family Pitheciidae, the New World monkeys that also include the other titis, the sakis and the uakaris. The Mammal Diversity Database credits the species name to I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1851 and lists its country distribution as Brazil. It is found in Brazil north of the Amazon on both sides of the Rio Negro. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the white-faced saki but was raised to full species status in 2014. The male has black body hair with orange or red-brown facial hair, while the female is lighter in body colour with more bare skin on the face, orange lines of hair below the eyes and orange ventral fur. It has a smaller, less prognathic and less spherical cranial vault than the white-faced saki. The Mammal Diversity Database gives its IUCN Red List status as Least Concern.