Fish-bone Cassia vs Monk Saki

Chamaecrista mimosoides compared with Pithecia monachus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Fish-bone Cassia	Monk Saki
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)	Primates (Primates)
Family	Fabaceae	Pitheciidae
Genus	Chamaecrista	Pithecia
Species	Chamaecrista mimosoides	Pithecia monachus

Conservation Status

Fish-bone Cassia

LC — Least Concern

Monk Saki

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Fish-bone Cassia	Monk Saki
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Fish-bone Cassia

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and montane grasslands and shrublands spanning the Australasia and Indomalayan and Oceanian realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Comoros, Guinea, Madagascar), Asia (4 countries), and Oceania and the Pacific (6 countries).