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The eastern pygmy marmoset (''Cebuella niveiventris'') is a
As different subspecies of the pygmy marmoset have different coloration patterns, the eastern pygmy is more of a white, pale color. The species has whiteish underparts which include their arms and legs, as well as their throat and chest having a more orange to white coloration.
Andean foothills
The home range of this nonhuman primate also stretches a little into northern Bolivia.
marmoset
The marmosets (), also known as zaris or sagoin, are twenty-two New World monkey species of the genera '' Callithrix'', '' Cebuella'', '' Callibella'', and ''Mico''. All four genera are part of the biological family Callitrichidae. The term ...
species
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, a very small New World monkey
New World monkeys are the five families of primates that are found in the tropical regions of Mexico, Central and South America: Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae, and Atelidae. The five families are ranked together as the Ceboi ...
, found in the southwestern Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon rainforest, also called the Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin ...
in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. It was formerly regarded as conspecific
Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species.
Biochemist Linus Pauling stated that "Biological specificity is the set of characteristics of living organism ...
with the similar western pygmy marmoset
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 e ...
, but the eastern pygmy marmoset has whitish colored underparts. Although the eastern pygmy marmoset occurs further east than the western pygmy marmoset, the primary separators of their ranges are the Amazon River (Solimões River
Solimões () is the name often given to upper stretches of the Amazon River in Brazil from its confluence with the Rio Negro upstream to the border of Peru. The Solimões flows for about 1,600 km (1,000 miles) through a floodplain about 80 km ...
) and Maranon River, with the western occurring to the north of them and the eastern to the south. The species has recently been confirmed by DNA testing to exist in Ecuador, hundreds of kilometers north of the Maranon River.
Physical description
The eastern pygmy marmoset weighs around 119 grams and have a head size ranging from 33.7 to 38.9mm, being one of the smallest New World monkeys. In the wild, full grown adult males weigh approximately 110 grams whereas adult females can weigh around 120 grams. All pygmy marmosets share a common attribute where they have a mane of fur covering their ears, arms that are longer than their hind legs, and they have noprotocone
A cusp is a pointed, projecting, or elevated feature. In animals, it is usually used to refer to raised points on the crowns of teeth.
The concept is also used with regard to the leaflets of the four heart valves. The mitral valve, which has two ...
in their first upper premolar tooth. Due to their specific diet, the eastern pygmy marmoset also has large lower incisor
Incisors (from Latin ''incidere'', "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals. They are located in the premaxilla above and on the mandible below. Humans have a total of eight (two on each side, top and bottom). Opossums have 18, wher ...
s and a strong V-shaped lower jaw. The eastern pygmy marmoset also has claw-like nails which are beneficial for actions such as poking holes in tree bark to obtain food, as well as the claw-like nails allows them to cling vertically to tree trunks.
As different subspecies of the pygmy marmoset have different coloration patterns, the eastern pygmy is more of a white, pale color. The species has whiteish underparts which include their arms and legs, as well as their throat and chest having a more orange to white coloration.
Ecology
Distribution
The eastern pygmy marmoset are small arboreal nonhuman primates that cover a large geographic distribution. As it was confirmed by DNA the eastern pygmy marmoset is located primarily south of the Rio Solimões river (Amazon River) covering parts of Peru, Brazil, Equator and Bolivia. The species covers a larger range in Brazil and Peru, present in the Amazonian lowlands anAndean foothills
The home range of this nonhuman primate also stretches a little into northern Bolivia.
Diet
The eastern pygmy marmoset is similar to the general species as they have a specific high-quality, rare food diet. They are considered mainly to be exudativores as well asinsectivore
file:Common brown robberfly with prey.jpg, A Asilidae, robber fly eating a hoverfly
An insectivore is a carnivore, carnivorous animal or plant which eats insects. An alternative term is entomophage, which can also refer to the Entomophagy ...
s. The eastern pygmy marmosets feed primarily on plant exudates which consist of tree sap, tree gum as well as latex from trees and liana
A liana is a long-Plant stem, stemmed Woody plant, woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the Canopy (biology), canopy in search of direct sunlight. T ...
s. This consists of a large portion of their diet. They are known at times to also eat arthropod
Arthropods ( ) are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda. They possess an arthropod exoskeleton, exoskeleton with a cuticle made of chitin, often Mineralization (biology), mineralised with calcium carbonate, a body with differentiated (Metam ...
s, primarily being insects, and occasionally eat fruits for extra nutrition.
The species, due to their particular diet, has dental as well as nail adaptations in order to gnaw, dig, and cling vertically to trees; these are all behaviors associated with feeding as well as exudate foraging.
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q95573837 Cebuella Mammals described in 1940 Primates of South America Taxa named by Einar Lönnberg