Common Marmoset Skull Replica

Description

Common marmoset skull replica measures 1.8 x 1.1 x 1.3 inches. Callithrix jacchus skull is a museum-quality polyurethane resin cast from California Academy of Sciences specimen. 2-part skull (separate cranium and mandible). 1:1 scale. Made in USA.

The common marmoset originally comes from the northeastern coast of Brazil, living in states like Piauí, Paraibá, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Alagoas, and Bahia.

They feed on a highly unique diet of plant exudates and insects, including gum, sap, latex, and resin. Females give birth to small litters, typically producing twins twice a year.

People also call this New Word monkey the white-tufted marmoset or white-tufted-ear-marmoset. Through intentional and unintentional release of captive monkeys, they expanded their range since the 1920s to Southeast Brazil. Their first sighting in the wild for Rio de Janeiro occurred in 1929.

Common marmosets are very small monkeys with long tails. Males grow slightly larger than females. Multicolored fur covers the animal, displaying sprinkles of brown, grey, and yellow. It has white ear tufts, and the long tail is banded. Its face has black skin across the nose area and a white blaze on the forehead. The fur of infants are brown and yellow.

Scientific Classification

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Mammalia
• Order: Primates
• Suborder: Haplorhini
• Infraorder: Simiiformes
• Family: Callitrichidae
• Genus: Callithrix
• Species: C. jacchus
• Binomial name: Callithrix jacchus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  
• Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

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