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Madidi titi monkey
Species of New World monkey / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Madidi titi monkey, also known as the GoldenPalace.com monkey or the golden palace monkey, is a titi, a kind of New World monkey, discovered in western Bolivia's Madidi National Park in 2004.[3] Its scientific name is Plecturocebus aureipalatii,[2] the specific epithet meaning "of the Golden Palace", in reference to GoldenPalace.com, an online casino which paid US$650,000 to have the species named after it, with benefits going toward the nonprofit organization that maintains the park where the titi was discovered.[3][4]
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Madidi titi | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Pitheciidae |
Genus: | Plecturocebus |
Species: | P. aureipalatii |
Binomial name | |
Plecturocebus aureipalatii (Wallace, Gómez, A. M. Felton, & A. Felton, 2006)[2] | |
Synonyms | |
Callicebus aureipalatii Wallace, Gómez, A. M. Felton, & A. Felton, 2006[2] |
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