CALLITRICHIDAE, Gray, 1821

Russell A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands & Don E. Wilson, 2013, Callitrichiade, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 3 Primates, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 262-346 : 262

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5730714
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6588478
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scientific name	CALLITRICHIDAE
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Family CALLITRICHIDAE View in CoL (MARMOSETS AND TAMARINS)

• Small monkeys with relatively long trunk and long limbs, short snout, large ears, colorful tufts, mustaches, fringes, and manes, digits with claw-like nails except on big toe, and long, non-prehensile tail.

- 30170 cm. View Figure

• Neotropical Region. View Figure

• Humid submontane, lowland tropical, dry semi-deciduous and deciduous, gallery, and Chacoan forests, scrub, and farmland-forest mosaics.

• 7 genera, 47 species, 62 taxa.

2 species Critically Endangered, 6 species Endangered, 6 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600