Common marmoset

Common marmoset[1][2]
Temporal range: Pleistocene - recent[3]
Common marmoset at Aquazoo-Löbbecke-Museum, Düsseldorf
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Callitrichidae
Genus: Callithrix
Species:
C. jacchus
Binomial name
Callithrix jacchus
Geographic range
Synonyms
  • Hapale communis South, 1845
  • Jacchus hapale Gray, 1870
  • Hapale leucotis Lesson, 1840
  • Jacchus albicollis Spix, 1823
  • Jacchus vulgaris rufus Fischer, 1829
  • Jacchus vulgaris Humboldt, 1812
  • Simia jacchus Linnaeus, 1758
  • Simia (Sagoinus) jacchus moschatus Kerr, 1792

The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus), also called white-tufted marmoset or white-tufted-ear marmoset, is a New World monkey. It originally lived on the northeastern coast of Brazil, in the states of Piauí, Paraíba, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Alagoas, and Bahia.[6] Through release (both intentional and unintentional) of captive individuals, it has expanded its range since the 1920s to Southeast Brazil (its first sighting in the wild for Rio de Janeiro was in 1929), where it became an invasive species, raising concerns about genetic pollution of similar species, such as the buffy-tufted marmoset (Callithrix aurita), and predation upon bird nestlings and eggs.[7]

The whole genome sequence of a female common marmoset was published on 20 July 2014.[8] It became the first New World monkey to have its genome sequenced.[9]

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  8. ^ Worley, Kim C; Warren, Wesley C; Rogers, Jeffrey; et al. (2014). "The common marmoset genome provides insight into primate biology and evolution". Nat Genet. 46 (8): 850–857. doi:10.1038/ng.3042. PMC 4138798. PMID 25038751.
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