Mico argentatus

Garbino, Guilherme S. T. & Nogueira, Marcelo R., 2017, On the mammals collected by Friedrich Sellow in Brazil and Uruguay (1814 – 1831), with special reference to the types and their provenance, Zootaxa 4221 (2), pp. 172-190 : 182

Mico argentatus (ZMB_MAM 284) and Saguinus niger (ZMB_MAM 289)

According to specimen’s labels and the Generalkatalog, these two callitrichids were collected by Sellow. The Saguinus niger ( ZMB _MAM 289, skin only) has “ Pará ” as the locality ( Fig. 7 d). The Mico argentatus ( ZMB _MAM 284, skin only) label reads “Brasilien” ( Fig. 7 c). These two taxa are restricted to the Amazonia of the Brazilian state of Pará ( Rylands and Mittermeier 2013) and more likely were collected by Sieber, who acquired specimens in that region for Hoffmannsegg ( Ávila-Pires 1967). Ávila-Pires (1967) reported on a similar discrepancy for specimens of the bristle-spined rat, Chaetomys subspinosus (e.g., ZMB _MAM 1300), an animal restricted to the Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Bahia, and Sergipe, but whose specimen labels and catalogue entries read “ Cametá ,” a locality in the Amazonia of Pará, northern Brazil, where Sieber made collections.

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FIGURE 7. Four callitrichid monkeys supposedly collected by Sellow in Brazil: a) Callithrix aurita (ZMB _ MAM 283); b) Leontopithecus chrysopygus (ZMB _ MAM 304); c) Mico argentatus (ZMB _ MAM 284); d) Saguinus niger (ZMB _ MAM 289). See text for discussion on locality and collector data.