White-headed marmoset

The white-headed marmoset (Callithrix geoffroyi), also known as the tufted-ear marmoset, Geoffroy's marmoset, or Geoffrey's marmoset, is a marmoset endemic to forests in eastern Brazil, where it is native to Bahia, Espírito Santo, and Minas Gerais, and introduced to Santa Catarina.^[2] It is known as the sagüi or sauim in Brazil.^[3] Its diet consists of fruits, insects, and the gum of trees.^[4] It is a host of Pachysentis lenti an acanthocephalan intestinal parasite.^[5]

White-headed marmoset[1]
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Callitrichidae
Genus:	Callithrix
Species:	C. geoffroyi
Binomial name
Callithrix geoffroyi (Humboldt, 1812)
White-headed marmoset range
Synonyms
C. albifrons (Thunberg, 1819) C. leucocephalus (Humboldt, 1812) C. leucogenys (Gray, 1870) C. maximiliani (Reichenbach, 1862) C. melanotis (Lesson, 1840)