Cebus kaapori

de Queiroz, 1992

Ka'apor Capuchin

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Primates
Suborder : Haplorhini
Infraorder : Simiiformes
Parvorder : Platyrrhini
Family : Cebidae
Subfamily : Cebinae
Genus : Cebus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Queiroz, H.L. de. 1992. A new species of capuchin monkey, genus Cebus Erxleben, 1777 (Cebidae: Primates) from eastern Brazilian Amazonia. Goeldiana Zoologia 15:1-13.

Original name as described

Cebus kaapori

Other common names

Kaapori Capuchin

Type material

MPEG 22025

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Quadrant 7.1 km south-west of the Chaga-Tudo Prospection, Carutapera, near right bank of Rio Gurupí, Maranhão, Brazil (0° 30' S, 47° 30' W).

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

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