Caracterização papiloscópica em fêmeas de Chlorocebus aethiops: novo modelo de Identificação.

Abstract

The identification of any animal, kept legally in breeders, has an ecological and technical importance and is governed in Brazil by some Normative Instructions from IBAMA. For nonhuman primates, under this law, each specimen must be artificially identified, with tattoos, e arrings or an electronic system. However, natural tags can be a great tool for creating virtual databases. In this context, in view of their phylogenetic proximity to man, the Chlorocebus aethiops, such as humans, the display a collectable datilogram to the determination of papillary pattern, indicating a possible and personal identification method. Organization of datiloscopic study within the three levels of the ACEV method (Analysis, Comparison, Evaluation and Verification). Despite the scarce literature in this regard, our findings, in the females of this species, at level I (papillary pattern), revealed as distal phalanges of C. aethiops do not show characteristic figures, however, the palmar and plantar surface form such configurations in order to characterize these patterns. Level II (minutiae), it was possible to analyze the presence of minuntiae, varied in 14 types and negatively confronted, confirming the efficiency of this individualization. The level III is for poroscopic studies that is not made in this research. The results show that data identification can be used to determine individuality using pattern characterizations, and by marking feature points, but, new and advanced studies for enhancement and refinement of this technique are necessary.