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SpeciesPrimatesCallitrichidae
Primates

🐒Common marmoset

Callithrix jacchus (Linnaeus, 1758)

القشة المألوفة أو القشة أبيض الخصلتين هو نسناسٌ صغير من نسانيس العالم الجديد يتبع فَصيلة جميلات الشعر، له مخالب بدلا من الأظافر. يتمتع بخصلتين بيضاء على وجنتيه. يعيش القشة المألوف في غابات أمريكا الجنوبية.

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≈ 1/240th of your weight
Also called
White-tufted-ear Marmoset
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.26 kg
Body length
0.3 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
23 years
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Everything we know about the Common marmoset

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.26 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.26 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length
0.3 m
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Brain mass
7.7 g
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Maximum lifespan
23 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 23 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length
5.9 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
1.2 years
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Gestation
144 days
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  • 144 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
about 2
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  • 2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Home range
0.02 km²
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Population density
805 per km²
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Volume l
0.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common marmoset yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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What it eats
nectar44%
fruit33%
insects and other invertebrates22%
In other languages
Weißbüscheläffchen (de), Sagui-de-tufos-brancos (pt), marmozeta zwyczajna (pl), 비단마모셋 (ko), Callithrix jacchus (fr), Обыкновенная игрунка (ru) … and 18 more languages
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