Endangered
Brown weeper capuchin
Cebus brunneus
The brown weeper capuchin or Venezuelan brown capuchin is a gracile capuchin monkey endemic to Venezuela, although some sources also consider it to occur on Trinidad.
Appearance
The brown weeper capuchin has brown, thick fur with a dark wedge on the forehead and lighter face, cheeks and chin. The different species known as white-fronted capuchins are extremely difficult to tell apart, and also appear to intergrade with each other where different taxa meet, as well as other Cebus taxa recognised as distinct. C. Brunneus may be conspecific with white-faced capuchins, that often cannot reliably be distinguished from it physically.
Its head and body are about 42 centimetres (17 in) with a 44 cm (17 in) tail.
Range and habitat
It lives in various types of forest in the Cordillera de la Costa in northern Venezuela, in dry semi-deciduous forests and gallery forests in the Western Venezuelan Llanos, as well as in Trinidad (under the assumption that the Trinidad white-fronted capuchin is synonymous). The brown weeper capuchin or Venezuelan brown capuchin is a gracile capuchin monkey endemic to Venezuela, although some sources also consider it to occur on Trinidad.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Brown weeper capuchin is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Brown weeper capuchin, Wikidata item Q113865570. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
