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SPECIES Cebus apella
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 28. | | Common Name: | Tufted Capuchin | | Type Locality: | French Guiana. | | Distribution: | N and W South America, from Guyana, Venezuela (south from the Río Orinoco delta) and Colombia south across the Amazon in Brazil to about 5°S in the east and to the headwaters of the upper tributaries in the west, nearly to 10°S. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Critically Endangered as C. a. margaritae, otherwise Least Concern (including listing as C. macrocephalus). | | Comments: | C. apella species group. Mittermeier et al. (1988:13-75) suggested that C. xanthosternos is a distinct species; followed by Groves (2001c), who also separated C. libidinosus and C. nigritus as distinct species. |
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| Offspring: SUBSPECIES apella SUBSPECIES fatuellus SUBSPECIES macrocephalus SUBSPECIES margaritae SUBSPECIES peruanus SUBSPECIES tocantinus | Synonyms:
capillatus Gray, 1865
cirrifer É. Geoffroy, 1812
crassiceps Pucheran, 1857
cristatus G. Cuvier, 1829
fallax Schlegel, 1876
fistulator Reichenbach, 1862
frontatus Kuhl, 1820
hypomelas (Pucheran, 1854)
leucogenys Gray, 1866
lunatus Kuhl, 1820
monachus F. Cuvier, 1820
niger É. Geoffroy, 1812
subcristatus Gray, 1865
variegata (Humboldt, 1812)
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