Colombian white-faced capuchin

The Colombian white-faced capuchin (Cebus capucinus) is a medium-sized New World monkey of the family Cebidae and subfamily Cebinae. It is the type species of the genus Cebus, which holds the gracile capuchins, and it was one of the many species Carl Linnaeus described in the 1758 tenth edition of Systema Naturae. Its body, tail, legs and the top of the head are black, while the chest, throat, face, shoulders and upper arms are white, a pattern that gave capuchins their name because it resembles the cowls of Capuchin friars. Head and body length is between 33 and 45 cm, and males weigh 3 to 4 kg against 1.5 to 3 kg for females. It is native to the extreme east of Panama and to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Until the 21st century the Panamanian white-faced capuchin was treated as a subspecies of it, and two subspecies are now recognized, including the Gorgona Island form.