Western pygmy marmoset

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Western pygmy marmoset
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Western pygmy marmoset in the Amazon, Ecuador
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Callitrichidae
Genus: Cebuella
Species:
C. pygmaea
Binomial name
Cebuella pygmaea
(Spix, 1823)

The western pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) is a marmoset species, a very small New World monkey found in the northwestern Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It was formerly regarded as conspecific with the similar eastern pygmy marmoset, which has whitish underparts. Although the western pygmy marmoset occurs further west than the eastern pygmy marmoset, the primary separators of their ranges are the Amazon River (Solimões River) and Maranon River, with the western occurring to the north of them and the eastern to the south.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b de la Torre, S.; Shanee, S.; Palacios, E.; Calouro, A.M.; Messias, M.R.; Valença-Montenegro, M.M. (2021). "Cebuella pygmaea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T136926A200203263. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T136926A200203263.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.

Further reading[]

  • Boubli, J.P.; et al. (2018). "How many pygmy marmoset (Cebuella Gray, 1870) species are there? A taxonomic re-appraisal based on new molecular evidence". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 120: 170–182. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.11.010.


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