Buffy-headed marmoset (Callithrix flaviceps)

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Range

The buffy-headed marmoset is found only in south-eastern Brazil, in the states of Espirito Santo and Minas Gerais, where just a few fragmented populations remain (2) (6).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

As an inhabitant of mountainous tropical forest, at altitudes from 400 metres to at least 1,200 metres (6) (7), the buffy-headed marmoset has to tolerate harsh seasonal extremes of temperature and rainfall, with winters being significantly drier and temperatures falling to near freezing (7). Within these forests, the buffy-headed marmoset ranges from about three metres off the ground, to around 30 metres high in the canopy (6).