White-throated Capuchin
Cebus capucinus
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 267
- Most observed in
- 🇵🇦 Panama
- Conservation
- Vulnerable
Description
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 extreme eastern portion of Panama and the extreme north-western portion of South America in western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. The Colombian white-faced capuchin was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is a member of the family Cebidae, the family of New World monkeys containing capuchin monkeys and squirrel monkeys. It is the type species for the genus Cebus, the genus that includes all the capuchin monkeys. The white-faced capuchin is, with tufted capuchins, the most well-studied capuchin species.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Colombian white-faced capuchin”.