The bare-eared squirrel monkey (''Saimiri ustus'') is a
squirrel monkey
Squirrel monkeys are New World monkeys of the genus ''Saimiri''. ''Saimiri'' is the only genus in the subfamily Saimiriinae. The name of the genus is of Tupi origin (''sai-mirím'' or ''çai-mbirín'', with ''sai'' meaning 'monkey' and ''mirím' ...
endemic to
Brazil
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and possibly eastern
Bolivia
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.
References
Endemic mammals of Brazil
Primates of Brazil
Squirrel monkeys
Mammals described in 1843
Taxa named by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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