Cebidae Author Russell A. Mittermeier Author Anthony B. Rylands Author Don E. Wilson text 2013 2013-03-31 Lynx Edicions Barcelona Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 3 Primates 348 413 book chapter 68516 10.5281/zenodo.6628559 22898d3b-c36a-4623-a228-eb3e11447def 978-84-96553-89-7 6628559 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. ø • 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.