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Cebuella pygmaea (pygmy marmoset)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) is a small New World monkey native to rainforests of the western Amazon Basin in South America. It is notable for being the smallest monkey and one of the smallest primates in the world at just over 100 grams (3.5 oz) (Madame Berthe's mouse lemur is smaller). It is generally found in evergreen and river edge forests and is a gum-feeding specialist, or a gummivore.
View Wikipedia Record: Cebuella pygmaea

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Cebuella pygmaea

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  124 grams
Birth Weight [1]  16 grams
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 10 months
Male Maturity [1]  1 year 9 months
Gestation [1]  4 months 5 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  18 years 7 months
Weaning [1]  3 months 1 day

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Leopardus pardalis (Ocelot)[2]
Leopardus tigrinus (Oncilla)[2]
Leopardus wiedii (Margay)[2]
Puma yagouaroundi (Jaguarundi)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Strongyloides stercoralis (threadworm)[3]
Trypanosoma cruzi[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Callithrix pygmaea, Wendy R. Townsend, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 665, pp. 1–6 (2001)
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0