Buffy-tufted marmoset
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Callitrichidae |
| Genus: | Callithrix |
| Species: | C. aurita
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| Callithrix aurita (É. Geoffroy, 1812)
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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.
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",[5]) brown crown, and shorter ear tufts.
The buffy-tufted marmoset lives in coastal forests from sea level up to 500 m. It is diurnal and arboreal, living almost all its life in the trees. It lives in small groups of two to eight animals. Unlike most other marmosets, the buffy-tufted marmoset almost exclusively eats insects. It does not eat tree sap, which may be related to having a very small snout. Aside from the insects, the buffy-tufted marmoset consumes also consumes varying types of flowering plants, such as Combretaceae and legumes, as well as gum, soursops, and cacti.[6]
Little is known about the buffy-tufted marmoset reproductive patterns. Gestation is about 170 days, and births are typically of fraternal twin offspring.
References
- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 130. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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). "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.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ^ Coimbra-Filho, A. F.; Mittermeier, R. A.; Rylands, A. B.; Mendes, S. L.; Kierulff, M. C. M.; Pinto, L. P. de S. (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.
- ^ Martins, M.M.; Setz, E.Z.F. (2000). "Diet of Buffy Tufted-Eared Marmosets (Callithrix aurita) in a Forest Fragment in Southeastern Brazil". International Journal of Primatology. 21 (3): 467-476. doi:10.1023/A:1005491903220. S2CID 1471465.
