Buffy-tufted-ear Marmoset
Callithrix aurita
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Epic
- Observations
- 237
- Most observed in
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Conservation
- Endangered
Description
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 southernmost range. The buffy-tufted marmoset resembles the common marmoset, but is somewhat larger. It has grey-black skin, and the most obvious differences from the common marmoset are its whitish face ("skull-like facial mask",) brown crown, and shorter ear tufts.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Buffy-tufted marmoset”.