{{Short description|Species of New World monkey}} {{Speciesbox | name = Shock-headed capuchin | image = Cebus cuscinus.jpg | status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Lynch Alfaro, J.W. |author2=Shanee, S. |author3=Mollinedo, J.M. |author4=Heymann, E.W. |author5=Muniz, C.C. |date=2021 |title=''Cebus cuscinus'' |volume=2021 |article-number=e.T4075A191701729 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T4075A191701729.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Cebus | species = cuscinus | authority = (Thomas, 1901) | range_map = | range_map_caption = }}

The '''shock-headed capuchin''' ('''''Cebus cuscinus''''') is a species of gracile capuchin monkey from Bolivia and Peru. It was previously classified as a subspecies of the Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin (''C. albifrons''), but in 2013 Mittermeier and Rylands elevated it to a separate species, following genetic studies by Boubli ''et al.'' in 2012 and Lynch Alfaro ''et al.'' in 2010.<ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021" /><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. |pages=407–408}}</ref><ref name=all>{{cite book|title=All the World's Primates|author=Phillips, Kimberly A.|editor=Rowe, Noel |editor2=Myers, Marc|pages=285–286|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|year=2012|pages=1–13|doi=10.1002/ajp.21998|url=http://socgen.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/CebusPhylogeneticRelationships.pdf|access-date=2018-12-30|pmid=22311697|volume=74|issue=4 |s2cid=12171529 }}</ref>

The shock-headed capuchin lives in lowland and seasonally inundated forests of the upper Amazon Basin, as well as montane forests of the western Andes Mountains up to elevations of {{convert|1800|m|ft|abbr=on}}.<ref name=handbook/> Males have a head and body length of about {{convert|40|cm|in|lk=on|abbr=on}} with a tail length of about {{convert|44|cm|in|lk=on|abbr=on}}.<ref name=handbook/> Females have a head and body length between {{convert|39|and|46|cm|in|lk=on|abbr=on}} with a tail length between {{convert|39|and|47.5|cm|in|lk=on|abbr=on}}.<ref name=handbook/>

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Category:Capuchin monkeys Category:Mammals of Peru Category:Mammals of Bolivia Category:Mammals described in 1901 Category:Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Category:Primates of South America Category:Arboreal mammals