Marañón white-fronted capuchin

Marañón white-fronted capuchin
Scientific classification
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 or Peruvian white-fronted capuchin (Cebus yuracus) 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.[1][2][3]

Marañón white-fronted capuchin in Lago Pilchicocha, Napo Valley, Ecuador

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.[1][2] Males have a head and body length of about 43 cm (17 in) with a tail length of about 47 cm (19 in).[1] Females have a head and body length about 37 cm (15 in) with a tail length of about 45 cm (18 in).[1]

Marañón white-fronted capuchins sometimes formed mixed groups with the Ecuadorian squirrel monkey.[1][2]

References

Mittermeier, Russell A.; Rylands, Anthony B. (2013). Mittermeier, Russell A.; Rylands, Anthony B.; Wilson, Don E. (eds.). Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Volume 3, Primates. Lynx. p. 407. ISBN 978-8496553897.
Jack, Katherine M. (2016). Rowe, Noel; Myers, Marc (eds.). All the World's Primates. Pogonias Press. p. 294. ISBN 9781940496061.
Boubli, Jean P.; et al. (2012). "Cebus Phylogenetic Relationships: A Preliminary Reassessment of the Diversity of the Untufted Capuchin Monkeys" (PDF). American Journal of Primatology. 74: 1–13. doi:10.1002/ajp.21998. PMID 22311697. Retrieved 2018-12-30.

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[handbook-1] Mittermeier, Russell A.; Rylands, Anthony B. (2013). Mittermeier, Russell A.; Rylands, Anthony B.; Wilson, Don E. (eds.). Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Volume 3, Primates. Lynx. p. 407. ISBN 978-8496553897.

[all-2] Jack, Katherine M. (2016). Rowe, Noel; Myers, Marc (eds.). All the World's Primates. Pogonias Press. p. 294. ISBN 9781940496061.

[boubli-3] Boubli, Jean P.; et al. (2012). "Cebus Phylogenetic Relationships: A Preliminary Reassessment of the Diversity of the Untufted Capuchin Monkeys" (PDF). American Journal of Primatology. 74: 1–13. doi:10.1002/ajp.21998. PMID 22311697. Retrieved 2018-12-30.