Callitrichinae, Gray, 1821

Voss, Robert S. & Fleck, David W., 2011, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 1: Primates, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (351), pp. 1-81 : 28

Subfamily Callitrichinae

Callitrichines include the smallest New World primates, all of which have claws instead of nails. Western Amazonian callitrichines include Goeldi’s monkey ( Callimico ), marmosets ( Callithrix ), and tamarins ( Saguinus ). Although the pygmy marmoset ( Callithrix pygmaeus ) was once placed in a separate genus ( Cebuella ), we follow Porter et al. (1997) in referring this taxon to the genus Callithrix . In our opinion, Cebuella and other clades of Amazonian marmosets (including Mico and Callibella ) are more appropriately ranked as subgenera (as by Groves, 2001, 2005) than as full genera (contra Roosmalen and Roosmalen, 2003; Rylands et al., 2009).