Cebus apella (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:28.

TYPE LOCALITY: French Guiana .

DISTRIBUTION: N and C South America.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: azarae, barbatus, buffonii, caliginosus, capillatus, chacoensis, cirrifera, crassipes, cristatus, cucullatus, elegans, fallax; fatuellus Linnaeus, 1766; fistulator, fluvus, frontalus, hypomelas, juruanus; libidinosus Spix, 1823; lunatus; macrocephalus Spix, 1823; magnus, maranomis, margaritae, monachus, morrulus, niger; nigritus, Goldfuss, 1809; pallidus, paraguayansis, peruanus, robustus, subcristatus, tocantinus, trepida, variegatus, vellerosus, vessutus, xanthosternos .

COMMENTS: Mittermeier et al. (1988:13-75) suggested that C. a. xanthosternos is a distinct species.