Callithrix aurita

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

Callithrix aurita (ZMB_MAM 283)

The specimen we examined, a skin without associated skull ( Fig. 7 a), has only “ Brasilien ” as the collecting locality. From Sellow’s itinerary, ZMB _MAM 283 may have been collected in southeastern Minas Gerais, eastern São Paulo or southern Rio de Janeiro .

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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.