Black capuchin[1] | |
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Black capuchin in Argentina | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Cebidae |
Genus: | Sapajus |
Species: | S. nigritus
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Binomial name | |
Sapajus nigritus (Goldfuss, 1809)
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Combined range of S. n. nigritus and S. n. cucullatus. S. n. robustus is found just northeast of this range (see text). |
The black capuchin (Sapajus nigritus), also known as the black-horned capuchin,[2] is a capuchin monkey from the Atlantic Forest in south-eastern Brazil and far north-eastern Argentina. Historically, it was included as a subspecies of the tufted capuchin.[1]