The Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin (''Cebus malitiosus'') 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

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 ...

. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the '' Cebus albifrons'' or a synonym of the

Colombian white-faced capuchin The Colombian white-faced capuchin (''Cebus capucinus''), also known as the Colombian white-headed capuchin or Colombian white-throated capuchin, is a medium-sized New World monkey of the family Cebidae, subfamily Cebinae. It is native to the ext ...

(''C. capucinus''), but Mittermeier and Rylands elevated it to a species in 2013, following previous work by Rylands,

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, Cooper and Hernandez-Camacho. The

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follows this taxonomy. The Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin range is restricted to forests near the northwest base of the

Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (English: ''Snow-Covered Mountain Range of Saint Martha'') is an isolated mountain range in northern Colombia, separate from the Andes range that runs through the north of the country. Reaching an elevation of ...

in northern Colombia. Males have a head and body about long and a tail about long.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q81655062 Capuchin monkeys Mammals of Colombia Mammals described in 1909 Taxa named by Daniel Giraud Elliot Primates of South America Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta