Geoffroy’s Tufted-ear Marmoset
Callithrix geoffroyi
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Mammals
The white-headed marmoset, 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. It is known as the sagüi or sauim in Brazil. Its diet consists of fruits, insects, and the gum of trees. It is a host of Pachysentis lenti an acanthocephalan intestinal parasite.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Primates
- Family
- Callitrichidae
- Genus
- Callithrix