Marañón White-fronted Capuchin
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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 Gracile capuchin monkeys are capuchin monkeys in the genus ''Cebus''. At one time all capuchin monkeys were included within the genus ''Cebus''. In 2011, Jessica Lynch Alfaro ''et al.'' proposed splitting the genus between the robust capuchin ...
from the upper
Amazon Basin The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributary, tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about , or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries ...
. It had been regarded as synonymous with the
shock-headed capuchin The shock-headed capuchin (''Cebus cuscinus'') is a species of gracile capuchin monkey from Bolivia and Peru. It was previously classified as a subspecies of the Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin (''C. albifrons''), but in 2013 Mittermeier and ...
(''C. cuscinus''), which was then considered a subspecies of
Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin (''Cebus albifrons'') is a species of gracile capuchin monkey. It is found in Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, and potentially the island of Trinidad. Taxonomy The species name ''Cebus albifrons'' was formerly con ...
, but it was classified as a separate species by Mittermeier and Rylands based on genetic studies by Boubli. Marañón white-fronted capuchin (Cebus yuracus) Rio Napo.jpg, Near Rio Napo, Sucumbios, Ecuador The Marañón white-fronted capuchin lives in wet forests of the upper Amazon basin in southern
Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
, eastern
Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
, northeastern
Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
and likely eastern
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. Males have a head and body length of about with a tail length of about . Females have a head and body length about with a tail length of about . Marañón white-fronted capuchins sometimes formed mixed groups with the Ecuadorian squirrel monkey.


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{{Taxonbar, from=Q20224949 Capuchin monkeys Mammals of Colombia Mammals of Ecuador Mammals of Peru Primates of Brazil Mammals described in 1949 Taxa named by Philip Hershkovitz