Marble face tamarin

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Marble face tamarin
Systematics
Subordination : Dry- nosed primates (Haplorrhini)
Partial order : Monkey (anthropoidea)
without rank: New World Monkey (Platyrrhini)
Family : Marmosets (Callitrichidae)
Genre : Saguinus
Type : Marble face tamarin
Scientific name
Saguinus inustus
( Schwarz , 1951)

The marble-faced tamarin ( Saguinus inustus ) is a species of primate from the marmoset family .

features

Marble-faced tamarins, like all marmosets, are relatively small primates. They reach a head body length of 21 to 26 centimeters, their tail becomes 33 to 41 centimeters long. Their fur is predominantly black in color, and it becomes slightly reddish on the back of the trunk. The tail is black. As with all marmosets, the fingers and toes (with the exception of the big toe) have claws instead of nails. The face is largely hairless and has black speckles.

distribution and habitat

Marble-faced tamarins live in the Amazon basin in South America , their range includes southeastern Colombia and northwestern Brazil to the Rio Negro . Their habitat is forests, they can often be found in secondary forests with dense undergrowth.

Way of life

Like all marmosets, these primates are diurnal and move on all fours or jumping through the branches. They stay in the lower tree layers and rarely come over ten meters high. They live in groups of three to six (sometimes up to eleven) animals, the groups are organized around a reproductive pair and inhabit territories of around 35 hectares. If there are several females in a group, only the dominant one will breed. As with all tamarins, twin births are likely to predominate and the fathers take part in raising the young. The animals are omnivores and eat fruits, flowers, tree sap, insects and other small animals.

Danger

Marble-faced tamarins are relatively adaptable primates that can also live near humans, and their range is very sparsely populated. The IUCN therefore lists the species as "not endangered" ( least concern ).

literature

  • Thomas Geissmann : Comparative Primatology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin et al. 2003, ISBN 3-540-43645-6 .
  • Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder (Eds.): Mammal Species of the World. A taxonomic and geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2005, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4 .

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