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]
Marañón white-fronted capuchin | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Cebidae |
Genus: | Cebus |
Species: | C. yuracus |
Binomial name | |
Cebus yuracus (Hershkovitz, 1949) | |
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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