{{Short description|Species of New World monkey}} {{Speciesbox | name = Napo saki<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021" /> | image = Pithecia napensis 2.jpg | image_caption = | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Marsh, L.K. |author2=de la Torre, S. |author3=Moscoso, P. |date=2018 |title=''Pithecia napensis'' |volume=2018 |article-number=e.T39955A70609585 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T39955A70609585.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Pithecia | species = napensis | authority = Lönnberg, 1938 | range_map = | range_map_caption = }}
The '''Napo saki''' ('''''Pithecia napensis'''''), also known as the Napo 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 eastern Ecuador and northern Peru.<ref name="Marsh2014"/> The name is derived from the Napo River in its locality. This species was originally described by Lönnberg as the subspecies ''Pithecia monachus napensis''<ref name="Marsh2014"/><ref name = MSW3>{{MSW3 Primates | id = 12100366 | pages = 147–148 | heading = ''Pithecia monachus''}}</ref> and has been treated as a synonym of ''P. monachus monachus''.<ref name = MSW3_b>{{MSW3 Primates | id = 12100367 | pages = 147–148 | heading = ''Pithecia monachus monachus''}}</ref> Hershkovitz retained it under ''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> but it was raised 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>
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Napo saki Category:Mammals of Ecuador Category:Mammals of Peru Napo saki Category:Taxa named by Einar Lönnberg Category:Arboreal mammals
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