Munduruku Marmoset

Mico munduruku

Classification

Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Callitrichidae

The Munduruku marmoset (Mico munduruku) is a marmoset endemic to Brazil. It is found only in the southern Amazon, in an area of approximately 120,000 km2, from the right bank of the Jamanxim River, below the mouth of the Rio Novo, to the mouth of the Tapajós River, below the mouth of the Cururu River. According to researcher and discoverer Rodrigo Araújo, approximately half of the distribution area lies within Mundurucu Indigenous Territory in the Amazonas state.

Distribution

(c) Costa-Araújo R, de Melo FR, Canale GR, Hernández-Rangel SM, Messias MR, Rossi RV, Silva FE, da Silva MNF, Nash SD, Boubli JP, Farias IP, Hrbek T., some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Sources and credits

Photo(c) Costa-Araújo R, de Melo FR, Canale GR, Hernández-Rangel SM, Messias MR, Rossi RV, Silva FE, da Silva MNF, Nash SD, Boubli JP, Farias IP, Hrbek T., some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionMunduruku marmoset, Wikipedia contributors Safetywikidata

Munduruku Marmoset

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