Biology:Cebus capucinus imitator

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Cebus capucinus imitator
White-faced Capuchin 1.jpeg
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cebidae
Genus: Cebus
Species:
Subspecies:
C. c. imitator
Trinomial name
Cebus capucinus imitator
(Thomas, 1903)

Cebus capucinus imitator is a subspecies of the white-headed capuchin.[1] Some authorities dispute whether C. c. imitator is actually a separate subspecies.[2] Other authorities regard it as a distinct species, Cebus imitator.[3] Cebus capucinus imitator ranges from Nicaragua through Costa Rica and part of Panama, west of the Panama Canal.[1] Cebus capucinus imitator differs from C. c. capucinus in that females have elongated frontal tufts.[1] It also differs from C. c. capucinus in the ratio of the width of the upper premolars to the width of the first molar.[4] It is larger than the other possible subspecies of white-headed capuchin, C. c. limitaneus and has a larger skull.[1] However, Boubli, et al, who performed a mitochondrial DNA study of the gracile capuchins which concluded that C. imitator was a separate species, also concluded that C. c. limitaneus is not a distinct taxon from C. c. imitator.[3] In that case, C. imitator would encompass the range of C. c. limitaneus in northern Nicaragua and Honduras.[3]

Refefences

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Rylands, Anothony B.; Groves, Colin P.; Mittermeier, Russell A.; Cortes-Ortiz, Liliana; Hines, Justin J.H. (2006). "Taxonomy and Distributions of Mesoamerican Primates". in Estrada, Alejandro. New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates. Springer. p. 42. ISBN 9780387258720. 
  2. Groves, C.P. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M.. eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 137. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100270. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Boubli, Jean P.; Rylands, Anthony B.; Farias, Izeni P.; Alfaro, Michael E.; Alfaro, Jessica Lynch (2012). "Cebus Phylogenetic Relationships: A Preliminary Reassessment of the Diversity of the Untufted Capuchin Monkeys". American Journal of Primatology. doi:10.1002/ajp.21998. http://socgen.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/CebusPhylogeneticRelationships.pdf. Retrieved 2017-08-08. 
  4. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 69, Issue 5. Smithsonian Institution. 1920. p. 232. 

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