Robust capuchin monkey
| Robust capuchin monkey Temporal range: Late Miocene to present |
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| Four species of robust capuchins, from top to bottom, from left to right: Sapajus flavius, Sapajus xanthosternos, Sapajus nigritus, Sapajus libidinosus. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Cebidae |
| Subfamily: | Cebinae |
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Sapajus Kerr, 1792 |
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Sapajus apella Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Sapajus apella |
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| Range of robust capuchin monkeys. S. apella S. cay S. flavius S. libidinosus S. macrocephalus S. nigritus S. robustus S. xanthosternos |
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Sapajus apella
Sapajus flavius
Sapajus libidinosus
Sapajus nigritus
Sapajus xanthosternos
S. apella S. cay S. flavius S. libidinosus S. macrocephalus S. nigritus S. robustus S. xanthosternos
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.
Based on the species and subspecies proposed by Groves in 2001 and 2005, robust capuchin monkey taxa include:
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