| Western pygmy marmoset | |
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| Western pygmy marmoset in the Amazon, Ecuador | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 separation 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
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.