Buffy-tufted marmoset

Buffy-tufted marmoset[1][2]
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[4]
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. aurita
Binomial name
Callithrix aurita
(É. Geoffroy, 1812)
Synonyms
  • chrysopyga Burmeister, 1854
  • coelestis Miranda Ribeiro, 1924
  • itatiayae Avila-Pires, 1959
  • petronius Miranda Ribeiro, 1924

The buffy-tufted marmoset (Callithrix aurita), also known as the buffy tufted-ear marmoset or white-eared marmoset, is a New World monkey that lives in the forests on the Atlantic coast of southeast Brazil. Of all the marmosets, it has the southernmost range.[5]

The buffy-tufted marmoset resembles the common marmoset, but is somewhat larger. It has grey-black skin, and the most obvious differences from the common marmoset are its whitish face ("skull-like facial mask",[6]) brown crown, and shorter ear tufts.

The Buffy-tufted marmoset is a species threatened of extinction due to the high level of deforestation in the Atlantic Forest. In the image there is a Buffy-tufted marmoset.
The Buffy-tufted marmoset is a species threatened of extinction due to the high level of deforestation in the Atlantic Forest.
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  2. ^ Rylands AB, Mittermeier RA (2009). "The Diversity of the New World Primates (Platyrrhini)". In Garber PA, Estrada A, Bicca-Marques JC, Heymann EW, Strier KB (eds.). South American Primates: Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation. Springer. pp. 23–54. ISBN 978-0-387-78704-6.
  3. ^ de Melo, F.R., Port-Carvalho, M., Pereira, D.G., Ruiz-Miranda, C.R., Ferraz, D.S., Bicca-Marques, J.C., Jerusalinsky, L., Oliveira, L.C., Valença-Montenegro, M.M., Valle, R.R., da Cunha, R.G.T., Mittermeier, R.A. (2021) [amended version of 2020 assessment]. "Callithrix aurita". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T3570A191700629. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T3570A191700629.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
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  5. ^ Rylands AB, Coimbra-Filho AF, Mittermeier RA (1993-06-10). "Systematics, geographic distribution, and some notes on the conservation status of the Callitrichidae". Marmosets and Tamarins. Oxford University Press. pp. 11–77. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198540229.003.0002. ISBN 978-0-19-854022-9.
  6. ^ Coimbra-Filho AF, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Mendes SL, Kierulff MC, Pinto LP (2006). "The Taxonomic Status of Wied's Black-tufted-ear Marmoset, Callithrix kuhlii (Callitrichidae, Primates)". Primate Conservation. 21: 1–24. doi:10.1896/0898-6207.21.1.1. S2CID 51681917.