The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·1369296SpeciesMammalia12,920 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Mammals
  5. ›Therians
  6. ›Placental Mammals
  7. ›Primates, Rodents, and Allies
  8. ›Primates
  9. ›Monkeys, Apes, and Tarsiers
  10. ›Monkeys and Apes
  11. ›New World Monkeys
  12. ›Cebid Monkeys
  13. ›Capuchins
  14. ›Cebus
Central American White-faced Capuchin
Plate 1 of 6. (c) Joshua Eastlake, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Joshua Eastlake · via iNaturalist
IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Central American White-faced Capuchin

Cebus imitator

The Panamanian white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator), also known as the Panamanian white-headed capuchin or Central American white-faced capuchin, is a medium-sized New World monkey of the family Cebidae, subfamily Cebinae. Native to the forests of Central America, the white-faced capuchin is important to rainforest ecology for its role in dispersing seeds and pollen.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Listen

Looking for field recordings…

§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Cebus imitator in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1369296.