Blond Capuchin

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name = Blond Capuchin
status = CR
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cebidae
genus = "Cebus"
species = "C. queirozi"
binomial = "Cebus queirozi"
binomial_authority = 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. [cite journal | journal = Zootaxa | url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/zt01200p012.pdf | issue = 1200 | year = 2006 | pages = 1–12 | title = A new species of capuchin monkey, genus "Cebus" Erxleben (Cebidae, Primates): found at the very brink of extinction in the Pernambuco Endemism Centre. | author = Mendes Pontes AR, Malta A & Asfora PH]

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." [cite web | url = http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1979048&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 | title = Scientists Claim New Monkey Species Found | author = Michael Astor | year = 2006 | month = May 18]

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