Endangered
Large-headed capuchin
Sapajus macrocephalus
Large-headed capuchin is a primate in the family Cebidae (order Primates) — Sapajus macrocephalus, recorded as Endangered.
The primate
Primates are mammals with grasping hands and forward-facing eyes. A named monkey or lemur on this catalog is a wild population, not a pet type.
This is a named wild mammal with a photograph and a threat category on the public record.
Range and habitat
It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It was formerly thought to be its own species (S. Macrocephalus), but studies have found it to be a subspecies of the tufted capuchin.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Large-headed 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 Large-headed capuchin — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q27980462. 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.
