Juvan Water Monkey

Piscipithicus lemuriaensis

Swimming in the many channels snaking through the Juvan Jungle is a highly derived sister group to Old World Monkeys, the Water Monkeys. Juvan Water Monkeys once a part of a far larger superfamily of primates but competition with more derived Old and New World monkeys drove most to extinction. Water Monkeys avoided extinction by being aquatic, only relying on trees to escape predators and sleeping. Water Monkeys are opportunists and will eat anything they can find; fish, mussels, crustaceans, water plants and even small mammals and reptiles are fair game. Water Monkeys are fairly intelligent, comparable to that of otters, and even forage similar to them. Troops corral fish into traps crafted out of branches, water plants and mud.

Juvan Water Monkeys are dark brown with milky white strips and underside to break up their silhouette among the reeds and roots of the river.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Superfamily: Propliopithecoidea
Family: Piscipithecidae
Genus: Piscipithicus
Species: P. lemuriaensis