Cebus capucinus imitator

Cebus capucinus imitator
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Primates
Suborder:Haplorhini
Infraorder:Simiiformes
Family:Cebidae
Genus:Cebus
Species: C. capucinus
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 2 3 4 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; Garber, Paul A.; Pavelka, Mary McDonald & Luecke, LeAndra. 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.
  3. 1 2 3 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" (PDF). American Journal of Primatology. doi:10.1002/ajp.21998. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
  4. ↑ Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 69, Issue 5. Smithsonian Institution. 1920. p. 232.
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