The Common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) is a unique New World Monkey with a rather unusual appearance and a number of special adaptations. Marmosets have an arboreal locomotion similar to squirrels. They can hang onto trees vertically leap between...
The black-tufted marmoset (Callithrix penicillata ), also known as Mico-estrela in Portuguese, is a species of New World monkey that lives primarily in the Neo-tropical gallery forests of the Brazilian Central Plateau. It ranges from Bahia to...
The white-headed marmoset (Callithrix geoffroyi ), also known as the tufted-ear marmoset, Geoffroy's marmoset, or Geoffrey's marmoset, is a marmoset endemic to forests in eastern Brazil, where it is native to Bahia, Espírito Santo, and Minas Gerais,...
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...
Wied's marmoset (Callithrix kuhlii ), also known as Wied's black-tufted-ear marmoset, is a New World monkey that lives in tropical and subtropical forests of eastern Brazil. Unlike other marmosets, Wied's marmoset lives in groups consisting of 4 or...
The buffy-headed marmoset (Callithrix flaviceps ) is a rare species of marmoset endemic to the rainforests of south-eastern Brazil. It occurs in southern Espírito Santo and possibly northern Rio de Janeiro and its distribution extends into Minas...