Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin

The Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin (Cebus malitiosus) is a species of gracile capuchin monkey from Colombia. 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.^[2][3] The IUCN follows this taxonomy.^[2]

Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Cebidae
Genus:	Cebus
Species:	C. malitiosus
Binomial name
Cebus malitiosus (Elliot, 1909)

The Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin range is restricted to forests near the northwest base of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia.^[3] Males have a head and body about 45.7 cm (18.0 in) long and a tail about 43.3 cm (17.0 in) long.^[2][3]