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Insulacebus toussaintiana Cooke, Rosenberger & Turvey, 2011:2699

La Hotte monkey

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Quaternary

 

Distribution

Hispaniola

 

Biology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Siobhán B. Cooke, Alfred L. Rosenberger, and Samuel Turvey. (2011). An extinct monkey from Haiti and the origins of the Greater Antillean primates. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1009161108.

 

Other references:

Borroto-Páez, Rafael, Mancina, Carlos A., Woods, Charles A. and Kilpatrick, C. William. (2012). Checklist: Updated Checklist of Endemic Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies, pp. 389-415. In: Borroto-Páez, Rafael, Woods, Charles A. and Sergile, F. E. (eds.). Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies: Contributions. Gainesville, Florida: Florida Museum of Natural History and Wacahoota Press. 482 pp.

Ford, Susan M. (1986). Subfossil platyrrhine tibia (Primates: Callitrichidae) from Hispaniola: A possible further example of Island gigantism. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 70(1): 47-62. [Abstract]

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/15052/insulacebus-toussaintiana-toussaints-isl-monkey 

 

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