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Leontopithecus rosalia (golden lion tamarin)

Synonyms: Jacchus rosalia brasiliensis; Jacchus rosalia guyannensis; Leontocebus leoninus; Leontopithecus aurora; Leontopithecus marikina

Wikipedia Abstract

The golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia, Portuguese: mico-leão-dourado Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈmiku leˈɐ̃w̃ dowˈɾadu]), also known as the golden marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae. Native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, the golden lion tamarin is an endangered species with an estimated wild population of about 3,200 individuals spread between four places along southeastern Brazil, and a captive population maintained at about 490 individuals among 150 zoos.
View Wikipedia Record: Leontopithecus rosalia

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Leontopithecus rosalia

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
49
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.41
EDGE Score: 3.94
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.444 lbs (655 g)
Birth Weight [1]  55 grams
Male Weight [4]  1.146 lbs (520 g)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  50 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 6 months
Male Maturity [1]  2 years
Gestation [1]  4 months 8 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  32 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  12 inches (30 cm)
Weaning [1]  4 months 11 days
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Alta Paraná Atlantic forests Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Atlantic Coast restingas Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Bahia interior forests Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Serra do Mar coastal forests Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests  

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bacia do Rio São João - Mico-Leão-Dourado Environmental Protection Area 382482 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Amblyomma paulopunctatum[6]

Range Map

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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
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Fruit exploitation by Golden Lion Tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) in the União Biological Reserve, Rio das Ostras, RJ - Brazil, M.J. Lapenta, P. Procópio de Oliveira, M.C.M. Kierluff and J.C. Motta-Junior, Mammalia. Volume 67, Issue 1, Pages 41–46 (2003)
♦ 6Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
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