The Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin (''Cebus malitiosus'') is a species of gracile capuchin monkey from

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the '' Cebus albifrons'' or a synonym of the Colombian white-faced capuchin (''C. capucinus''), but Mittermeier and Rylands elevated it to a species in 2013, following previous work by Rylands, Hershkovitz, 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 Sierra de

Santa Marta Santa Marta (), officially Distrito Turístico, Cultural e Histórico de Santa Marta ("Touristic, Cultural and Historic District of Santa Marta"), is a city on the coast of the Caribbean Sea in northern Colombia. It is the capital of Magdalena ...

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

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{{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