Critically Endangered
Golden-bellied capuchin
Sapajus xanthosternos
Golden-bellied capuchin is a primate in the family Cebidae (order Primates) — Sapajus xanthosternos, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Although there are differences between individuals as well as between the sexes and across age groups, S. Xanthosternos is described as having a distinctive yellow to golden red chest, belly and upper arms. Its face is a light brown and its cap for that the capuchins were first named is a dark brown/black or light brown. A band of short hair around the upper part of the face with speckled colouring contrasts with the darker surrounding areas.
Range and habitat
Populations of S. Xanthosternos are restricted to the Atlantic forest of south-eastern Bahia, Brazil, due possibly to high degrees of interference from humans. Historically they probably would have inhabited the entire area east of, and north to, the Rio São Francisco. The largest continuous area of forest in its known range, the Una Biological Reserve in Bahia, is estimated to contain a population of 185 individuals.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Golden-bellied capuchins feed on both plant and animal origins making them omnivores. Capuchins residing near marine areas will feed on oysters, crabs or other shellfish.
Golden-bellied capuchin has been known to hunt and eat various small lizards, sometimes ripping limbs off of the lizards before consuming them. Capuchins can mate year-round but females will give birth every two years.
In crisis
Golden-bellied capuchin normal home range is in the Atlantic forest of Brazil and it is critically endangered due to forest fragmentation and habitat loss mainly due to agriculture, there are currently efforts to protect them by the local government. This is causing fragmentation of the forests threatening their habitat. Groups of Capuchins are being separated from one another causing interbreeding that results in biodiversity loss ultimately causing an extinction vortex.
Golden-bellied capuchin is Critically 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 Golden-bellied capuchin, Wikidata item Q28154803. 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.
