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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Colombian white-faced capuchin”.