Cebus xanthosternos

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	PRIMATES	CEBIDAE

Scientific Name:

Cebus xanthosternos

Species Authority:

Wied-Neuwied, 1826

Common Name/s:

English

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Buff-headed Capuchin, Yellow-breasted Capuchin

Synonym/s:

Cebus apella ssp. xanthosternos

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Critically Endangered A2cd ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s

Keirulff, M.C.M., Mendes, S.L. & Rylands, A.B.

Evaluator/s:

Mittermeier, R.A. & Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority)

Justification:
This species is listed as Critically Endangered due to a severe population decline (due to extensive habitat loss throughout its range) over the past 3 generations (48 years) estimated at more than 80%. It is only known to occur in several small protected areas.

History:

2003	–	Critically Endangered (IUCN 2003)
2000	–	Critically Endangered (Hilton-Taylor 2000)
1996	–	Critically Endangered (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)
1994	–	Endangered (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Cebus xanthosternos is restricted to the Atlantic forest of southern Bahia, Brazil, north of the Rio Jequitinhonha, at least as far north as the Rio Paraguaçú near Salvador, but probably historically throughout the entire area west of, and north to, the Rio São Francisco (Coimbra-Filho et al. 1991, 1991/1992; Silva Jr, 2001).
Countries:	Native: Brazil (Bahia, Minas Gerais - Presence Uncertain)
Range Map:	(click map to view full version)

Population [top]

Population:	Rylands (1982) estimated the density at Una, Bahia, at 0.72 groups/km² or 10.87 individuals/km².
Population Trend:	Decreasing

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Tropical lowland and submontane forest in of the Atlantic coast of Brazil. Arboreal quadrepeds, they are typically found in the lower to mid-canopy and understorey (Freese and Oppenheimer 1981; Fragaszy et al, 2004; Jack 2007). Also dry, semideciduous forest patches in the western part of its range in Bahia. Capuchins are frugivores-insectivores, including a wide variety of fruits, seeds and arthropods, frogs, nestlings and even small mammals in their diet, supplemented by stems, flowers and leaves. They are extractive, manipulative foragers. Males disperse. Both sexes take up linear hierarchies, the top-ranking male being dominant to the top-ranking female. Subordinate males are often peripheral (Fragaszy et al. 2004). No field studies have been carried out examining particularly the behaviour and ecology of this species.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Habitat and Ecology:

Tropical lowland and submontane forest in of the Atlantic coast of Brazil. Arboreal quadrepeds, they are typically found in the lower to mid-canopy and understorey (Freese and Oppenheimer 1981; Fragaszy et al, 2004; Jack 2007). Also dry, semideciduous forest patches in the western part of its range in Bahia.

Capuchins are frugivores-insectivores, including a wide variety of fruits, seeds and arthropods, frogs, nestlings and even small mammals in their diet, supplemented by stems, flowers and leaves. They are extractive, manipulative foragers. Males disperse. Both sexes take up linear hierarchies, the top-ranking male being dominant to the top-ranking female. Subordinate males are often peripheral (Fragaszy et al. 2004). No field studies have been carried out examining particularly the behaviour and ecology of this species.

Systems:

Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	This species is subject to very high rates of habitat loss and is heavily hunted (Santos et al. 1987; Coimbra-Filho et al. 1992/1993).

Major Threat(s):

This species is subject to very high rates of habitat loss and is heavily hunted (Santos et al. 1987; Coimbra-Filho et al. 1992/1993).

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	The largest single population is currently in the Una Biological Reserve contiguous with the Una Widlife Refuge (a buffer zone around the Biological Reserve), but a further protected area will be decreed in 2008: the Serra da Lontras National Park (16,800 ha), west of the biological reserve. Also present in Condurú State Park (8,941 ha); Lemos Maia Experimental Station (CEPLAC/CEPEC) (495 ha); and Canavieiras Experimental Station (CEPLAC/CEPEC) (500 ha). An International Committee for the Conservation and Management for the Atlantic forest capuchin monkeys, Cebus xanthosternos and C. robustus, was created in 1992 by the Brazilian Institute for the Environment (IBAMA) to promote field studies and organize a captive population from the numerous individuals kept as pets. It languished, but was resuscitated in 2002 (Santos and Lernould 1993; Baker and Kierulff 2002), and took in a Working Group created in 2003 for Barbara Brown’s Titi Monkey (Callicebus barbarabrownae) and Coimbra-Filho’s Titi Monkey (C. coimbrai) (both also occurring in north-eastern Brazil).

Conservation Actions:

The largest single population is currently in the Una Biological Reserve contiguous with the Una Widlife Refuge (a buffer zone around the Biological Reserve), but a further protected area will be decreed in 2008: the Serra da Lontras National Park (16,800 ha), west of the biological reserve.

Also present in Condurú State Park (8,941 ha); Lemos Maia Experimental Station (CEPLAC/CEPEC) (495 ha); and Canavieiras Experimental Station (CEPLAC/CEPEC) (500 ha).

An International Committee for the Conservation and Management for the Atlantic forest capuchin monkeys, Cebus xanthosternos and C. robustus, was created in 1992 by the Brazilian Institute for the Environment (IBAMA) to promote field studies and organize a captive population from the numerous individuals kept as pets. It languished, but was resuscitated in 2002 (Santos and Lernould 1993; Baker and Kierulff 2002), and took in a Working Group created in 2003 for Barbara Brown’s Titi Monkey (Callicebus barbarabrownae) and Coimbra-Filho’s Titi Monkey (C. coimbrai) (both also occurring in north-eastern Brazil).

Citation:	Keirulff, M.C.M., Mendes, S.L. & Rylands, A.B. 2008. Cebus xanthosternos. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 December 2008.
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