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 from the upper

Amazon Basin The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its 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 of Boli ...

. 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 co ...

, but it was classified as a separate species by Mittermeier and Rylands based on genetic studies by Boubli. Cebus albifrons ssp

The Marañón white-fronted capuchin lives in wet forests of the upper Amazon basin in southern Colombia, eastern

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechuan languages, Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar language, Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechuan ...

, northeastern

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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.

References

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