White-headed marmoset

White-headed marmoset
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Callitrichidae
Genus:	Callithrix
Species:	C. geoffroyi
Binomial name
	Callithrix geoffroyi; (Humboldt, 1812)
	White-headed marmoset range
Synonyms
	C. albifrons (Thunberg, 1819); C. leucocephalus (Humboldt, 1812); C. leucogenys (Gray, 1870); C. maximiliani (Reichenbach, 1862); C. melanotis (Lesson, 1840);

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, and introduced to Santa Catarina.^[2] It is known as the sagüi or sauim in Brazil.^[3] Its diet consists of fruits, insects, and the gum of trees.^[4] It is a host of Pachysentis lenti an acanthocephalan intestinal parasite.^[5]

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.
^ ^a ^b de Melo, F.R.; Pereira, D.G.; Kierulff, M.C.M.; Bicca-Marques, J.C.; Mittermeier, R.A. (2021). "Callithrix geoffroyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T3572A191701212. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T3572A191701212.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^ "Callithrix geoffroyi - White-headed marmoset". Infonatura. NatureServe. Archived from the original on 17 December 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
^ Caine, N. G.; Mundy, N. I. (2000). "Demonstration of a foraging advantage for trichromatic marmosets (Callithrix geoffroyi) dependent on food colour". Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 267 (1442): 439–444. doi:10.1098/rspb.2000.1019. PMC 1690559. PMID 10737399.
^ Machado-Filho, D.A. (1950). "Revisão do gênero Prosthenorchis Travassos, 1915 (Acanthocephala)" [Revision to the genus Prosthenorchis Travassos, 1915 (Acanthocephala)]. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (in Portuguese). 48: 495–545. doi:10.1590/S0074-02761950000100020. PMID 24539413. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022.

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[msw3-1] 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.

[iucn_status_19_November_2021-2] Melo, F.R.; Pereira, D.G.; Kierulff, M.C.M.; Bicca-Marques, J.C.; Mittermeier, R.A. (2021). "Callithrix geoffroyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T3572A191701212. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T3572A191701212.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.

[3] "Callithrix geoffroyi - White-headed marmoset". Infonatura. NatureServe. Archived from the original on 17 December 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2013.

[4] Caine, N. G.; Mundy, N. I. (2000). "Demonstration of a foraging advantage for trichromatic marmosets (Callithrix geoffroyi) dependent on food colour". Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 267 (1442): 439–444. doi:10.1098/rspb.2000.1019. PMC 1690559. PMID 10737399.

[Machado-Filho1950-5] Machado-Filho, D.A. (1950). "Revisão do gênero Prosthenorchis Travassos, 1915 (Acanthocephala)" [Revision to the genus Prosthenorchis Travassos, 1915 (Acanthocephala)]. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (in Portuguese). 48: 495–545. doi:10.1590/S0074-02761950000100020. PMID 24539413. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022.

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