Marañón white-fronted capuchin
Species of New World monkey
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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]
Near Rio Napo, Sucumbios, Ecuador
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| Marañón 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. 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]