Family CEBIDAE (SQUIRREL MONKEYS AND CAPUCHINS)

• Small to medium-sized monkeys with hindlimbs longer than forelimbs, head oval in squirrel monkeys and rounded in capuchins, relatively large brain, large ears, and long tail that is semi-prehensile in capuchins.

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• 60-110cm.

• Neotropical Region.

• Moist tropical and subtropical, lowland and sub-montane, and dry deciduous and semi-deciduous, forests, scrub and farmland-forest mosaics.

• 3 genera, 29 species, 30 taxa.

• 4 species Critically Endangered, 3 species Endangered, 2 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.