Mico marcai

(Alperin, 1993)

Marca's Marmoset

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Primates
Suborder : Haplorhini
Infraorder : Simiiformes
Parvorder : Platyrrhini
Family : Callitrichidae
Genus : Mico
Subgenus : Mico

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Alperin, R. 1993. _Callithrix argentata_ (Linnaeus, 1771); considerações taxonômicas e descrição de subespécie nova. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi 9(2):317-328.

Original name as described

Callithrix argentata marcai

Type material

MN 2856

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Brazil, mouth of the Rio Castanho (= Rio Roosevelt), a left-bank tributary of the Rio Aripuanã, Amazonas State, Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

moved from Callithrix to Mico; includes manicorensis

Taxonomy notes citation

Rylands, A. B., & Mittermeier, R. A. (2009). The diversity of the New World primates (Platyrrhini): an annotated taxonomy. In South American Primates (pp. 23-54). Springer, New York, NY. · Garbino, G. S. T. (2014). The taxonomic status of Mico marcai (Alperin 1993) and Mico manicorensis (van Roosmalen et al. 2000)(Cebidae, Callitrichinae) from southwestern Brazilian Amazonia. International Journal of Primatology, 35(2), 529-546.

IUCN Red List status

Vulnerable

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