Western Pygmy Marmoset
Cebuella pygmaea
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 254
- Most observed in
- 🇪🇨 Ecuador
- Conservation
- Vulnerable
Description
The western pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) is a marmoset species, a very small New World monkey found in the northwestern Amazon rainforest in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It was formerly regarded as conspecific with the similar eastern pygmy marmoset, which has whitish underparts. Although the western pygmy marmoset occurs further west than the eastern pygmy marmoset, the primary separators of their ranges are the Amazon River (Solimões River) and Marañón River, with the western occurring to the north of them and the eastern to the south.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Western pygmy marmoset”.