Uta Hick's bearded saki

Uta Hick's bearded saki (Chiropotes utahicki) is an endangered species of bearded saki, a type of New World monkey. It is endemic to Brazil, where restricted to the Amazon between the Xingu and Tocantins Rivers. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the more easterly C. satanas, but its back is pale brownish.Silva Jr., J. S. and Figueiredo, W. M. B. (2002). Revisão sistemática dos cuxiús, gênero Chiropotes Lesson, 1840 (Primates Pithecidae). Livro de Resumos do XO. Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Primatologia, Amazônia – A Última Fronteira: 21. Belém, Brazil.Bonvicino, C. R., Boubli, J. P., Otazú, I. B., Almeida, F. C., Nascimento, F. F., Coura, J. R. and Seuánez, H. N. (2003). Morphologic, karyotypic, and molecular evidence of a new form of Chiropotes (primates, pitheciinae). American Journal of Primatology 61(3): 123-133.

Etymology Its vernacular and specific name were made in honor of Uta Hick, a German primatologist who cared for bearded sakis at the Cologne Zoo. In the 1980s, she was the first person who could successfully keep captive bearded sakis. Her married name is Uta Rümpler.

The specific name utahicki is often corrected to utahickae, as is the appropriate suffix for the genitive of a woman honoree's name (meaning "Uta Hick's") according to ICZN rules. Even though technically indicates a male honoree, some sources discourage modifying the earlier utahicki,Brandon-Jones, D., Duckworth, J. W., Jenkins, P. D., Rylands, A. B., and Sarmiento, E. E. (2007). The genitive of species-group scientific names formed from personal names. Zootaxa 1541: 41-48. because there is no official way to make such corrections under the current (1999) ICZN.

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