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title: "Marañón white-fronted capuchin"
description: "Cebus yuracus — Zoogdieren. The Marañón 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."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/maranon-white-fronted-capuchin
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Marañón white-fronted capuchin

> Cebus yuracus — Zoogdieren. The Marañón 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.

- Scientific name: *Cebus yuracus*
- Category: `mammals` (Zoogdieren)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 1035
- Wikidata: [Q20224949](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20224949)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1369291](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1369291)

## Names

- en: Marañón white-fronted capuchin
- de: Marañon-Kapuzineraffe
- es: Capuchino de Frente Blanca
- fr: Sapajou du Maranon
- it: Cebo del Marañón

## Countries with the most observations

EC (536), PE (24), CO (13)

## Summary

The Marañón 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…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara%C3%B1%C3%B3n_white-fronted_capuchin

## Photo

![Marañón white-fronted capuchin](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/maranon-white-fronted-capuchin/medium.jpg)

Photo: Kathy Daniel · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/341330048

## Machine access

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