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title: "Macaco-prego-de-cara-branca"
description: "Cebus capucinus — Mamíferos. The Colombian white-faced capuchin (Cebus capucinus), also known as the Colombian white-headed capuchin or Colombian white-throated capuchin, is a medium-sized New World monkey of the family Cebidae, subfamily Cebinae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/colombian-white-throated-capuchin
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Macaco-prego-de-cara-branca

> Cebus capucinus — Mamíferos. The Colombian white-faced capuchin (Cebus capucinus), also known as the Colombian white-headed capuchin or Colombian white-throated capuchin, is a medium-sized New World monkey of the family Cebidae, subfamily Cebinae.

- Scientific name: *Cebus capucinus*
- Category: `mammals` (Mamíferos)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta), `jungle` (Selva)
- iNaturalist observations: 709
- Wikidata: [Q585189](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q585189)
- iNaturalist taxon: [43432](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43432)

## Names

- en: Colombian White-throated Capuchin
- de: Weißschulter-Kapuzineraffe
- es: Mono Capuchino
- fr: Sapajou capucin
- nl: Witschouderkapucijnaap
- pt: Macaco-prego-de-cara-branca
- pl: Kapucynka czarno-biała

## Countries with the most observations

CO (191), PA (166), EC (39)

## Summary

The Colombian white-faced capuchin (Cebus capucinus), also known as the Colombian white-headed capuchin or Colombian white-throated capuchin, is a medium-sized New World monkey of the family Cebidae, subfamily Cebinae. It is native to the extreme eastern portion of Panama and the extreme north-western portion of South America in western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador.
The Colombian white-faced capuchin was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is a member of the family Cebidae, the family of New World monkeys containing capuchin monkeys…

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

## Photo

![Macaco-prego-de-cara-branca](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/colombian-white-throated-capuchin/medium.jpg)

Photo: Don Johnston · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/62760238

## Machine access

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