The ñóMarañón 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. It had been regarded as synonymous with the shock-headed capuchin (C. cuscinus), which was then considered a subspecies of Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin, but it was classified as a separate species by Mittermeier and Rylands based on genetic studies by Boubli.

The Marañón white-fronted capuchin lives in wet forests of the upper Amazon basin in southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, northeastern Peru and likely eastern Brazil. 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 capuchin

Marañón white-fronted capuchins sometimes formed mixed groups with the Ecuadorian squirrel monkey.

Marañón white-fronted capuchin

References

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

Marañón white-fronted capuchin