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Common Squirrel Monkey
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Common Squirrel Monkey

Saimiri sciureus

The common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) is a small New World monkey of the family Cebidae, native to the tropical areas of South America.

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Common Squirrel Monkey in Jean Baptiste Audebert — Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800)

Jean Baptiste Audebert — Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800)

Jean Baptiste Audebert · 1800 · p.199

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 43428.