Capuchin monkey

Capuchin monkey Temporal range: 6.2–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Miocene-Present
Panamanian white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator) on a tree near a river bank in the jungles of Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Cebidae
Subfamily:	Cebinae Bonaparte, 1831
Genera
Cebus Sapajus

The capuchin monkeys (/ˈkæpjʊ(t)ʃɪn/) are New World monkeys of the subfamily Cebinae. They are readily identified as the "organ grinder" monkey, and have been used in many movies and television shows. The range of capuchin monkeys includes some tropical forests in Central America and South America as far south as northern Argentina. In Central America, where they are called white-faced monkeys ("carablanca"), they usually occupy the wet lowland forests on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and Panama and deciduous dry forest on the Pacific coast.