White-headed marmoset

The white-headed marmoset (Callithrix geoffroyi), also known as the tufted-ear marmoset, Geoffroy's marmoset, or Geoffrey's marmoset, is a marmoset endemic to forests in eastern Brazil, where it is native to Bahia, Espírito Santo, and Minas Gerais, and introduced to Santa Catarina.^[2] It is known as the sagüi or sauim in Brazil.^[3] Its diet consists of fruits, insects, and the gum of trees.^[4] It is a host of Pachysentis lenti an acanthocephalan intestinal parasite.^[5]

White-headed marmoset[1]
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Callitrichidae
Genus:	Callithrix
Species:	C. geoffroyi
Binomial name
Callithrix geoffroyi (Humboldt, 1812)
White-headed marmoset range
Synonyms
C. albifrons (Thunberg, 1819) C. leucocephalus (Humboldt, 1812) C. leucogenys (Gray, 1870) C. maximiliani (Reichenbach, 1862) C. melanotis (Lesson, 1840)

References

1. Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 130. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
2. de Melo, F.R.; Pereira, D.G.; Kierulff, M.C.M.; Bicca-Marques, J.C.; Mittermeier, R.A. (2021). "Callithrix geoffroyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T3572A191701212. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T3572A191701212.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
3. "Callithrix geoffroyi - White-headed marmoset". Infonatura. NatureServe. Archived from the original on 17 December 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
4. Caine, N. G.; Mundy, N. I. (2000). "Demonstration of a foraging advantage for trichromatic marmosets (Callithrix geoffroyi) dependent on food colour". Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 267 (1442): 439–444. doi:10.1098/rspb.2000.1019. PMC 1690559. PMID 10737399.
5. Machado-Filho, D.A. (1950). "Revisão do gênero Prosthenorchis Travassos, 1915 (Acanthocephala)" [Revision to the genus Prosthenorchis Travassos, 1915 (Acanthocephala)]. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (in Portuguese). 48: 495–545. doi:10.1590/S0074-02761950000100020. PMID 24539413. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022.