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title: "Santa Marta White-fronted Capuchin"
description: "Cebus malitiosus — Mammals. The Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin (Cebus malitiosus) is a species of gracile capuchin monkey from Colombia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/santa-marta-white-fronted-capuchin
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Santa Marta White-fronted Capuchin

> Cebus malitiosus — Mammals. The Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin (Cebus malitiosus) is a species of gracile capuchin monkey from Colombia.

- Scientific name: *Cebus malitiosus*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammals)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 489
- Wikidata: [Q81655062](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81655062)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1369294](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1369294)

## Names

- en: Santa Marta White-fronted Capuchin
- de: Santa-Marta-Kapuzineraffe
- es: Capuchino frentiblanco de Santa Marta
- fr: Sapajou des Santa Marta

## Countries with the most observations

CO (440)

## Summary

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.  The IUCN follows this taxonomy.
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. Males have a head and body about 45.7 cm (18.0 in)…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Marta_white-fronted_capuchin

## Photo

![Santa Marta White-fronted Capuchin](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/santa-marta-white-fronted-capuchin/medium.jpg)

Photo: russnamitz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/359295130

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/santa-marta-white-fronted-capuchin?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).