This tiny woodpecker is 8–9 cm long. It occurs in seasonally flooded forest along the Amazon in Brazil, and published natural-history records are limited.
It is about 8–9 cm long.
The ICMBio assessment cites one 2002 record near Juruti, Pará, where two juveniles foraged on small tree trunks in secondary seasonally flooded forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.