This capuchin occurs in the upper Brazilian Amazon. Its specialist handbook account lists lowland and seasonally flooded forest and describes a diet of fruits and invertebrates.
Its coat is grayish or ochre-brown, with grayer flanks and a darker back. The front is cream to yellow, the limbs and tail reddish yellow, and the crown nearly black.
The account lists lowland terra firme forest, seasonally flooded varzea and forest patches in Amazonian savannas. It describes a diet of fruits and invertebrates, including palm fruit mesocarp.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.