Marañón white-fronted capuchin

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Marañón white-fronted capuchin
File:Marañon White-fronted Capuchin Cebus yuracus A.jpg
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Family: Cebidae
Genus: Cebus
Species:
C. yuracus
Binomial name
Cebus yuracus
(Hershkovitz, 1949)

The Marañón white-fronted capuchin (Cebus yuracus) also or known as Peruvian white-fronted capuchin or Andean white-fronted capuchin is a species of gracile capuchin monkey from the upper Amazon Basin. It had been regarded as synonymous with the shock-headed capuchin (C. cuscinus), which was then considered a subspecies of Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin, but it was classified as a separate species by Mittermeier and Rylands based on genetic studies by Boubli.[2][3][4]


The Marañón white-fronted capuchin lives in wet forests of the upper Amazon basin in southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, northeastern Peru and likely eastern Brazil.[2][3] Males have a head and body length of about 43 cm (17 in) with a tail length of about 47 cm (19 in).[2] Females have a head and body length about 37 cm (15 in) with a tail length of about 45 cm (18 in).[2]

Marañón white-fronted capuchins sometimes formed mixed groups with the Ecuadorian squirrel monkey.[2][3]

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