Shock-headed capuchin: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the shock-headed capuchin lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Cebus cuscinus
Group	Monkeys
Status	Near threatened (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	South America
Class	Mammal
Order	Primates
Family	Cebidae

Where does the shock-headed capuchin live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the shock-headed capuchin in 1 country or territory across South America. Wikidata gives its range as: Brazil.

Peru

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the shock-headed capuchin endangered?

The shock-headed capuchin’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Near threatened” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the shock-headed capuchin?

The shock-headed capuchin (Cebus cuscinus) is a mammal in the order Primates and the family Cebidae, genus Cebus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the shock-headed capuchin

The shock-headed capuchin (Cebus cuscinus) is a species of gracile capuchin monkey from Bolivia and Peru. It was previously classified as a subspecies of the Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin (C. albifrons), but in 2013 Mittermeier and Rylands elevated it to a separate species, following genetic studies by Boubli et al. in 2012 and Lynch Alfaro et al. in 2010.

The shock-headed capuchin lives in lowland and seasonally inundated forests of the upper Amazon Basin, as well as montane forests of the western Andes Mountains up to elevations of 1,800 m (5,900 ft). Males have a head and body length of about 40 cm (16 in) with a tail length of about 44 cm (17 in). Females have a head and body length between 39 and 46 cm (15 and 18 in) with a tail length between 39 and 47.5 cm (15.4 and 18.7 in).

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Shock-headed capuchin (revision 1356900617), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q34270937 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).