Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin
Species of New World monkey
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The Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin (Cebus malitiosus) is a species of gracile capuchin monkey from Colombia. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Cebus albifrons or a synonym of the Colombian white-faced capuchin (C. capucinus), but Mittermeier and Rylands elevated it to a species in 2013, following previous work by Rylands, Hershkovitz, Cooper and Hernandez-Camacho.[2][3] The IUCN follows this taxonomy.[2]
| Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Family: | Cebidae |
| Genus: | Cebus |
| Species: | C. malitiosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Cebus malitiosus (Elliot, 1909) | |
The Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin range is restricted to forests near the northwest base of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia.[3] Males have a head and body about 45.7 cm (18.0 in) long and a tail about 43.3 cm (17.0 in) long.[2][3]