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BLACK-TAILED SILVERY MARMOSET Mico melanurus
Paraguay´s smallest primate and the only marmoset to reach the country, the Black-tailed Silvery Marmoset is a fluffy little inhabitant of semihumid forest in the Chaco/Pantanal interface. Until recently this species was classified in the genus Callithrix.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPMAM899PH) Adult, Aguadulce, Departamento Alto Paraguay (Paul Smith November 2010).
FIGURE 2 - (FPMAM329PH) Same individual (Paul Smith November 2010).
VIDEO - (FPMAM900VI) Same individual (Paul Smith November 2010).
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