{{short description|Species of South American monkey}} {{Speciesbox | name = Miller's saki<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021" /> | image = Pithecia milleri 61716040.jpg | image_caption = | status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Marsh, L.K. |author2=Link, A. |author3=Palacios, E. |author4=Stevenson, P.R. |author5=de la Torre, S. |author6=Moscoso, P. |date=2021 |title=''Pithecia milleri'' |volume=2021 |article-number=e.T17407A192446875 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T17407A192446875.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Pithecia | species = milleri | authority = J. A. Allen, 1914 | range_map = | range_map_caption = }}
'''Miller's saki''' ('''''Pithecia milleri'''''), also known as Miller's monk saki,<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021" /> is a species of saki monkey, a type of New World monkey. Its range includes parts of southwestern Colombia, northeastern Ecuador, and perhaps adjacent areas in Peru.<ref name="Marsh2014"/> This species was originally described as a species by J. A. Allen, demoted to a subspecies of the monk saki (''P. monachus'') in 1987,<ref name="Hershkovitz1987">{{cite journal|last1=Hershkovitz|first1=P.|author-link= Philip Hershkovitz|title=The taxonomy of south American sakis, genus ''Pithecia'' (Cebidae, Platyrrhini): A preliminary report and critical review with the description of a new species and a new subspecies|journal=American Journal of Primatology|volume=12|issue=4|date=1987|pages=387–468|doi=10.1002/ajp.1350120402|pmid=31973491 |s2cid=86775905 }}</ref><ref name = MSW3>{{MSW3 Primates | id = 12100368 | pages = 147–148 | heading = ''Pithecia monachus milleri''}}</ref> and raised back to full species status in 2014.<ref name="Marsh2014">{{cite journal|last1=Marsh|first1=L. K.|title=A Taxonomic Revision of the Saki Monkeys, ''Pithecia'' Desmarest, 1804|journal=Neotropical Primates|volume=21|issue=1|date=July 2014|pages=1–165|doi=10.1896/044.021.0101|s2cid=86516301 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Confusion over the taxonomy of saki monkeys has arisen in part due to poorly labeled or mislabeled museum specimens.<ref name="Marsh2014" /> Males and females of this species, like those of other sakis, have differently colored pelage, with the females being more grayish in the face and overall, and the males a darker, grizzled black but with brown in the face and forearms.<ref name="Marsh2014" />
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Miller's saki Category:Mammals of Colombia Category:Mammals of Ecuador Miller's saki Category:Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen Category:Arboreal mammals
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