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Blond Capuchin

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iBlond Capuchin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cebidae
Genus: Cebus
Species: C. queirozi
Binomial name
Cebus queirozi
Mendes Pontes and Malta, 2006

The Blond Capuchin (Cebus queirozi) is a claimed new capuchin monkey species that was discovered in early 2006 by Zoology researchers from the Federal University in Pernambuco, near Recife, northeastern Brazil. <ref>Mendes Pontes AR, Malta A & Asfora PH (2006). "A new species of capuchin monkey, genus Cebus Erxleben (Cebidae, Primates): found at the very brink of extinction in the Pernambuco Endemism Centre.". Zootaxa (1200): 1-12.</ref>

Pontes said that "as soon as I saw the monkey with its golden-yellow hair and the white tiara on its head, I knew it was a new species." <ref>Michael Astor (May 18 2006). Scientists Claim New Monkey Species Found.</ref>

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