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The tufted capuchin is an omnivorous animal, mostly feeding on fruits and invertebrates, although it sometimes feeds on small vertebrates (e.g. lizards and bird chicks) and other plant parts. It can be found in many different kinds of environment, including moist tropical and subtropical forest, dry forest , and disturbed or secondary forest .
Tufted capuchin. The order Primates contains humans and their closest relatives: ... "Animal Diversity Web". University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. 1995–2006
The Margarita Island capuchin belongs to the family of Cebidae, which is part of the New World monkeys consisting of squirrel monkeys, capuchin monkeys, tamarins, and marmosets. They have been recognized as a sub-species of the tufted capuchin. The Margarita Island Capuchin has a genus of sapajus, along with other capuchin monkeys. [3]
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The list consists of those species found in the nations or overseas territories of continental South America (including their island possessions, such as the Galápagos), as well as in Trinidad and Tobago and the Falkland Islands; Panama is not included. As of May 2012, the list contains 1,331 species, 340 genera, 62 families and 15 orders.
Robust capuchin monkeys are capuchin monkeys in the genus Sapajus.Formerly, all capuchin monkeys were placed in the genus Cebus. Sapajus was erected in 2012 by Jessica Lynch Alfaro et al. to differentiate the robust (tufted) capuchin monkeys (formerly the C. apella group) from the gracile capuchin monkeys (formerly the C. capucinus group), which remain in Cebus.
Brown spider monkey (Ateles hybridus) Platyrrhini is a parvorder of primates. Members of this parvorder are called platyrrhines, or New World monkeys, and include marmosets, tamarins, and capuchin, squirrel, night, titi, saki, howler, spider, and woolly monkeys. Platyrrhini is one of three clades that form the suborder Haplorrhini, itself one of two suborders in the order Primates. They are ...
The large-headed capuchin (Sapajus apella macrocephalus) is a subspecies of the tufted capuchin monkey from South America. It is found in Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador and Peru . [ 2 ] It was formerly thought to be its own species ( S. macrocephalus ), but studies have found it to be a subspecies of the tufted capuchin.