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SPECIES Callithrix (Mico) melanura

Author:É. Geoffroy, 1812.
Citation:Rec. Observ. Zool., 1: 361.
Common Name:Black-tailed Marmoset
Type Locality:Brazil, Mato Grosso, Cuiaba.
Distribution:S Brazil, between the Rios Aripuanã and Juruena, southwest to the Rio Beni in Bolivia.
Status:CITES – Appendix II.
Comments:Subgenus Mico. Separated from C. argentata by de Vivo (1991).
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Synonyms:

    leucomerus (Gray, 1846)
    leukeurin (Natterer in Pelzeln, 1883)

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