Shock-headed capuchin

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Shock-headed capuchin
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cebidae
Genus: Cebus
Species:
C. cuscinus
Binomial name
Cebus cuscinus
(Thomas, 1901)

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 Rylands elevated it to a separate species, following genetic studies by Boubli et al. in 2012 and Lynch Alfaro et al. in 2010. [1] [2] [3] [4]

The shock-headed capuchin lives in lowland and seasonally inundated forests of the upper Amazon Basin, as well as montane forests of the western Andes Mountains up to elevations of 1,800 m (5,900 ft). [2] Males have a head and body length of about 40  cm (16  in ) with a tail length of about 44  cm (17  in ). [2] Females have a head and body length between 39 and 46  cm (15 and 18  in ) with a tail length between 39 and 47.5  cm (15.4 and 18.7  in ). [2]

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References

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