{{Short description|Species of New World monkey}} {{Speciesbox | name = Río Cesar white-fronted capuchin | image = | status = EN | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Link, A. |author2=Boubli, J.P. |author3=Lynch, J.W. |date=2021 |title=''Cebus cesarae'' |volume=2021 |article-number=e.T4082A195995295 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T4082A195995295.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Cebus | species = cesarae | authority = (Hershkovitz, 1949) | range_map = File:Distribution Cebus.png | range_map_caption = Range Map Shows In Yellow }}

The '''Río Cesar white-fronted capuchin''' ('''''Cebus cesarae''''') is a species of gracile capuchin monkey from the Río Cesar Valley in northern Colombia. It had previously been considered a subspecies of the white-fronted capuchin (''C. albifrons'').<ref name=handbook>{{cite book|title=Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Volume 3, Primates|year=2013|isbn=978-84-96553-89-7|publisher=Lynx|editor1=Mittermeier, Russell A. |editor2=Rylands, Anthony B. |editor3=Wilson, Don E. | last1=Mittermeier |first1=Russell A. |last2=Rylands |first2=Anthony B. |page=411}}</ref> Genetic analysis by Jean Boubli in 2012 revealed that the Río Cesar white-fronted capuchin is actually more closely related to the Colombian white-faced capuchin (''C. capucinus'') than it is to ''C. albifrons''.<ref name=boubli>{{cite journal|title=Cebus Phylogenetic Relationships: A Preliminary Reassessment of the Diversity of the Untufted Capuchin Monkeys|author=Boubli, Jean P.|display-authors=etal|journal=American Journal of Primatology|volume=74|issue=4|year=2012|pages=1–13|doi=10.1002/ajp.21998|pmid=22311697|s2cid=12171529 |url=http://socgen.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/CebusPhylogeneticRelationships.pdf|access-date=2018-12-30}}</ref> Some authors regard it to be a subspecies of the varied white-fronted capuchin (''C. versicolor cesarae'').<ref name=all>{{cite book|title=All the World's Primates|last1=Jack |first1=Katherine M.|editor-last1=Rowe |editor-first1=Noel |editor-last2=Myers |editor-first2=Marc|page=293|year=2016|publisher=Pogonias Press|isbn=978-1-940496-06-1}}</ref>

The Río Cesar white-fronted capuchin lives in dry semi-deciduous forest, gallery forest and mangroves.<ref name=handbook/> Its fur is light colored.<ref name=handbook/> Males have a head and body length between {{convert|30.8|and|40.7|cm|in|lk=on|abbr=on}} with a tail length of between {{convert|41.9|and|49.5|cm|in|lk=on|abbr=on}}.<ref name=handbook/> Females have a head and body length between {{convert|35.3|and|38.5|cm|in|lk=on|abbr=on}} with a tail length of between {{convert|46.1|and|50|cm|in|lk=on|abbr=on}}.<ref name=handbook/>

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Category:Capuchin monkeys Category:Mammals of Colombia Category:Mammals described in 1949 Category:Taxa named by Philip Hershkovitz Category:Primates of South America Category:Arboreal mammals