📸 PhotoPhoto: Don Faulkner · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Northern Pygmy Marmoset
Cebuella pygmaea (Northern Pygmy Marmoset · Northern Pygmy Marmoset)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its average weight of 124 g equals about two chicken eggs (about 60 g each) (Comparison).
- 💡 Its body length of 13 cm is about the length of a ballpoint pen (Comparison).
- 💡 As international trade grew due to its popularity as a pet, it was listed on CITES Appendix I in 1977–1979 and is now on Appendix II (ADW).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
The northern pygmy marmoset is the smallest living monkey species, inhabiting riverside forests of the western Amazon in South America.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its buff and gray coat is speckled with yellow, green, and black, and long hair around its face and neck looks like a lion's mane. Only its big toes have flat nails while the remaining digits bear claw-like nails, and it uses its long, pointed lower incisors to gouge holes in trees.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It feeds mainly on tree exudates—gums, sap, and resin—along with insects such as grasshoppers, small lizards, fruits, flowers, and spiders. Families of 2–6 individuals usually produce twins, and fathers and siblings help care for the young.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List VU (2025) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/136926/259089515
- • IUCN Red List category VU — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • mammaldiversity.org — 1000786
- • iucnredlist.org — 259089515
- • wikidata.org — Q14850405
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) on branch.jpg
- • animaldiversity.org — Callithrix pygmaea
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Kai Caspar · CC0 1.0 (Related taxon silhouette — Leontocebus weddelli)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.