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Animal profile

Pygmy Marmoset

Cebuella pygmaea

MammaliaRiver-edge and floodplain forest with suitable gum treesVulnerable

Field profile

The pygmy marmoset is the smallest true monkey, an adult weighing around a hundred grams. It lives in family groups bound to a small number of gum trees, which it gouges and revisits. Its coat is a tawny agouti that breaks up its outline against bark.

Scope note

This is an editorial profile, not a diagnostic field-identification guide or a substitute for current conservation assessments. Follow the cited sources on each fact for the evidence trail.

Published field notes

2023-10-09

Pygmy Marmoset

The smallest monkey weighs about a hundred grams

An adult pygmy marmoset weighs roughly the same as a deck of cards and has a head and body about the length of a human finger, with a longer tail behind it. Mouse lemurs are smaller, but they are not monkeys.

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Pygmy Marmoset | Daily Animal Facts