Family CALLITRICHIDAE (MARMOSETS AND TAMARINS)

• Small monkeys with relatively long trunk and long limbs, short snout, large ears, colorful tufts, mustaches, fringes, and manes, digits with claw-like nails except on big toe, and long, non-prehensile tail.

- 30170 cm.

• Neotropical Region.

• Humid submontane, lowland tropical, dry semi-deciduous and deciduous, gallery, and Chacoan forests, scrub, and farmland-forest mosaics.

• 7 genera, 47 species, 62 taxa.

2 species Critically Endangered, 6 species Endangered, 6 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600