''Primate Conservation'' is a journal published by the IUCN Species Survival Commission's

Primate Specialist Group Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians ( monkeys and apes, the latter including hu ...

about the world's primates. First published as a mimeographed newsletter in 1981, the journal today publishes

conservation Conservation is the preservation or efficient use of resources, or the conservation of various quantities under physical laws. Conservation may also refer to: Environment and natural resources * Nature conservation, the protection and manageme ...

research and papers on primate species, particularly status surveys and studies on distribution and ecology. Besides these regular papers, the journal has also been a significant place for

primatologists Primatology is the scientific study of primates. It is a diverse discipline at the boundary between mammalogy and anthropology, and researchers can be found in academic departments of anatomy, anthropology, biology, medicine, psychology, vete ...

to publish descriptions of new primate species in ''Primate Conservation''.

New primate species descriptions

From South America, this includes the

Caquetá titi Caquetá may refer to: * Caquetá River, a river in Colombia * Caquetá Territory The Caquetá Territory ( es, Territorio del Caquetá) was a national territory of the Republic of New Granada and the subsequent states of the Granadine Confederat ...

(''Callicebus caquetensis'') described in 2010 and the

Madidi titi 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. Its scientific name is ''Plecturocebus aureipalat ...

(''Plecturocebus aureipalatii'', Syn.: ''Callicebus aureipalatii''). From the island of

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

, new

lemur Lemurs ( ) (from Latin ''lemures'' – ghosts or spirits) are Strepsirrhini, wet-nosed primates of the Superfamily (biology), superfamily Lemuroidea (), divided into 8 Family (biology), families and consisting of 15 genera and around 100 exist ...

species scientifically described in the pages of the journal include the

Montagne d'Ambre dwarf lemur The Montagne d'Ambre dwarf lemur or Andy Sabin's dwarf lemur (''Cheirogaleus andysabini'') is a species of dwarf lemur known only from Amber Mountain National Park and the surrounding area in northern Madagascar. It was identified in 2005, but n ...

or Andy Sabin's dwarf lemur (''Cheirogaleus andysabini''), the Ankarana dwarf lemur (''Cheirogaleus shethi''), and two new species of

mouse lemurs A mouse ( : mice) is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (''Mus musculus' ...

(''Microcebus'').Louis Jr., E. E., Engberg, S. E., McGuire, S. M., McCormick, M. J., Richard Randriamampionona, R., Ranaivoarisoa, J. F., Bailey, C. A., Mittermeier, R. A. and Lei, R. 2008
Revision of the mouse lemurs, ''Microcebus'' (Primates, Lemuriformes), of northern and northwestern Madagascar with descriptions of two new species at Montagne d’Ambre National Park and Antafondro Classified Forest.
''Primate Conservation'' (23): 19–38.

References

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