{{Short description|Species of New World monkey}} {{Speciesbox | name = Spix's white-fronted capuchin | image = Cebus unicolor 179341215.jpg | status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn C. unicolor">{{cite iucn |author=Boubli, J.P. |author2=Lynch Alfaro, J.W. |author3=Heymann, E.W. |author4=Valença-Montenegro, M.M. |author5=Mollinedo, J.M. |author6=Calouro, A.M. |date=2021 |title=''Cebus unicolor'' |volume=2021 |article-number=e.T70333194A191708016 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T70333194A191708016.en |access-date=25 July 2022}}</ref> | genus = Cebus | species = unicolor | authority = (Spix, 1823) | range_map = | range_map_caption = }}
'''Spix's white-fronted capuchin''' ('''''Cebus unicolor''''') is a species of gracile capuchin monkey. It had previously been classified as a subspecies of the Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin (''C. albifrons''). Following genetic studies by Boubli, ''et al'', Mittermeier and Ryland elevated it to a full species.<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 |editor=Mittermeier, Russell A. |editor2=Rylands, Anthony B. |editor3=Wilson, Don E. |author=Mittermeier, Russell A. |author2=Rylands, Anthony B. |page=408}}</ref><ref name=all>{{cite book|title=All the World's Primates |author=Jack, Katherine M. |editor=Rowe, Noel |editor2=Myers, Marc |pages=292–293 |year=2016 |publisher=Pogonias Press |isbn=978-1-940496-06-1}}</ref><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=et al |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 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103046/http://socgen.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/CebusPhylogeneticRelationships.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Spix's white-fronted capuchin has a wide range within the upper Amazon Basin in Brazil and Peru.<ref name=handbook/> It also occurs in northern Bolivia.<ref name=handbook/> It has a head and body length between {{convert|36.5|and|37.5|cm|in|lk=on|abbr=on}} and a tail length of between {{convert|42|and|46|cm|in|lk=on|abbr=on}}.<ref name=handbook/>
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Category:Capuchin monkeys Category:Mammals of Bolivia Category:Mammals of Peru Category:Primates of Brazil Category:Mammals described in 1823 Category:Fauna of the Amazon Category:Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix Category:Arboreal mammals