List of primates described in the 2010s
This is a list of species of the order Primates that were described in the 2010s.
2010
- Caquetá titi was described by Thomas Defler, Marta Bueno, and Javier Garcia. It is found in Colombia.
- Rondon's marmoset was described by Ferrari, Sena, Schneider, and Silva Jr. It is found in Brazil.
- Northern buffed-cheeked gibbon was described by Van Ngoc Thinh, Mootnick, Vu Ngoc Thanh, Nadler, and Roos. It is found in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
- Myanmar snub-nosed monkey was described by Thomas Geissmann, Ngwe Lwin, Saw Soe Aung, Thet Naing Aung, Zin Myo Aung, Tony Htin Hla, Mark Grindley, and Frank Momberg. It is found in Myanmar.
- Wallace's tarsier was described by Merker, Driller, Dahruddin, Wirdateti, Sinaga, Perwitasari-Farajallah, and Shekelle. It is found in Indonesia on the island of Sulawesi.
2011
- Gerp's mouse lemur was described by Radespiel and collaborators. It is found in eastern Madagascar.
2012
- Lesula was described by Hart, Detwiler, Gilbert, Burrell, Fuller, Emetshu, Hart, Vosper, Sargis, and Tosi. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Vieira's titi was described by Gualda-Barros, Nascimento and Amaral. It is found in the central-northern Brazil.
2013
- Kayan River slow loris, a species of slow loris, was first described by Rachel Munds, Anna Nekaris, and Susan Ford.
- Makandé squirrel galago, a species of galago, was described by Ambrose. It is found in Gabon.
- Marohita mouse lemur, a mouse lemur, was described by Rodin Rasoloarison, David Weisrock, Anne Yoder, Daniel Rakotondravony, and Peter Kappeler. It is found in eastern Madagascar.
- Anosy mouse lemur, a mouse lemur, was described by Rodin Rasoloarison, David Weisrock, Anne Yoder, Daniel Rakotondravony, and Peter Kappeler. It is found in eastern Madagascar.
- Lavasoa dwarf lemur, a dwarf lemur, described by Thiele, Razafimahatratra, and Hapke. It is found in the Lavasoa Mountains in southern Madagascar.
2014
- Milton's titi, described by Julio César Dalponte, Felipe Ennes Silva e José de Sousa e Silva Júnior. Endemic to Brazil.
- Isabel's saki, a saki from Peru described by Laura Marsh. It is named after an aristocratic Peruvian woman named Isabel Godin des Odonais.
- Cazuza's saki, a saki from Brazil described by Laura Marsh. It was named after Brazilian primatologist Dr. José de Sousa e Silva Júnior, nicknamed "Cazuza".
- Mittermeier's Tapajós saki, a saki from Brazil described by Laura Marsh and named for primatologist Russell Mittermeier. Although supported by the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group and ITIS, the species designation is disputed by Serrano-Villavicencio et al. 2019.
- Rylands' bald-faced saki, a saki found in Bolivia, Peru, and possibly Brazil described by Laura Marsh and named after Anthony Rylands. Although supported by the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group and ITIS, the species designation is disputed by Serrano-Villavicencio et al. 2019.
- Pissinatti's bald-faced saki, a saki described by Laura Marsh. Although supported by the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group and ITIS, the species designation is disputed by Serrano-Villavicencio et al. 2019.
2015
- White-cheeked macaque, was thought to be an Assam macaque, but distinct differences led to Macaca leucogenys being considered a new species.
- Urubamba brown titi, a titi from Peru described by Vermeer and Tello-Alvarado as Callicebus urubambensis.
- Montagne d'Ambre dwarf lemur, a dwarf lemur from Madagascar described by Lei, McLain, Frasier, Taylor, Bailey, Engberg, Ginter, Nash, Randriamampionona, Groves, Mittermeier and Louis, Jr.
2016
- Bemanasy mouse lemur, a mouse lemur from Madagascar described by Hotaling, Foley, Lawrence, Bocanegra, Blanco, Rasoloarison, Kappeler, Barrett, Yoder and Weisrock.
- Ganzhorn's mouse lemur, a mouse lemur from Madagascar described by Hotaling, Foley, Lawrence, Bocanegra, Blanco, Rasoloarison, Kappeler, Barrett, Yoder and Weisrock.
- Nosy Boraha mouse lemur, a mouse lemur from Madagascar described by Hotaling, Foley, Lawrence, Bocanegra, Blanco, Rasoloarison, Kappeler, Barrett, Yoder and Weisrock.
- Ankarana dwarf lemur, a dwarf lemur from northern Madagascar described by Frasier, Lei, McLain, Taylor, Bailey, Ginter, Nash, Randriamampionona, Groves, Mittermeier and Louis Jr.
2017
- Tapanuli orangutan, was reported in 1939, then rediscovered in 1997, but wasn't described as a distinct species until 2017.
- Skywalker hoolock gibbon, described in 2017 and named after Star Wars character Luke Skywalker.
- Gursky's spectral tarsier, a tarsier from Sulawesi, Indonesia described by Shekelle, Groves, Maryanto, and Mittermeier.
- Jatna's tarsier, a tarsier from Indonesia described by Shekelle, Groves, Maryanto, and Mittermeier.
- Angolan dwarf galago, is a dwarf galago from Angola described by Svensson, Bersacola, Mills, Munds, Nijman, Perkin, Masters, Couette, Nekaris and Bearder.
- Groves' dwarf lemur is a dwarf lemur from Madagascar described by McLain, Lei, Frasier, Taylor, Bailey, Roberts, Nash, Randriamanana, Mittermeier and Louis Jr.
2018
- Alta Floresta titi a titi from Brazil described by Byrne, Silva, Silva-Júnior, Costa Araujo, Bertuol, Gonçalves, Melo, Rylands, Mittermeier, Silva, Nash, Canale, Alencar, Rossi, Carneiro, Sampaio, I. P. Farias, Schneider, and Hrbek.
2019
- Niemitz's tarsier, a tarsier from the Togean Islands of Indonesia described by Shekelle, Groves, Maryanto, Mittermeier, Salim, A. and Springer.
- Munduruku marmoset, a marmoset from Pará in Brazil described by Costa-Araújo, Hrbek & Farias in Costa-Araújo, Melo, Canale, Hernández-Rangel, Messias, Rossi, F. E. Silva, M. N. F. da Silva, Nash, Boubli, I. P. Farias & Hrbek.
- Parecis titi, a species of titi from northern Brazil described by Gusmão, Messias, Carneiro, Schneider, Alencar, Calouro, Dalponte, Mattos, Ferrari, Buss, Azevedo, Santos Jr, Nash, Rylands, and Barnett.