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Related: About this forumNew marmoset species discovered in Brazilian Amazon 'Schneider's marmoset' is found in the highly th
'Schneiders marmoset' is found in the highly threatened, but little-studied forests of Mato Grosso State
Date:
August 12, 2021
Source:
Wildlife Conservation Society
Summary:
A team of scientists has discovered a new marmoset species in the Brazilian Amazon. Schneider's marmoset is named after professor Horacio Schneider, a pioneer and major contributor to the research of diversity and evolution of monkeys.
A team of scientists has discovered a new marmoset species in the Brazilian Amazon. Schneider's marmoset (Mico schneideri), described in the latest issue of the journal Scientific Reports, is named after professor Horacio Schneider, a pioneer and major contributor to the research of diversity and evolution of monkeys.
The discovery was made by a team of researchers led by Rodrigo Costa Araújo, currently an associate researcher at Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Araújo was funded in part by the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP), a capacity-building partnership between WCS, BirdLife International and Fauna & Flora International (FFI).
The Amazon marmosets of the genus Mico are among the more diverse groups of monkeys and found only in the threatened forests of the "arc of deforestation," a region that accounts for half of the global land use change in the past 30 years. Currently, there is no conservation response to address the losses of habitat and population decreases such marmosets are subjected to, primarily because they are poorly studied.
The total number of Amazon marmoset species remains unknown. In 2019 Araújo and his team discovered the Munduruku marmoset(Mico munduruku) from another area within the arc of deforestation. M. schneideri was described from marmosets known to researchers since 1995 but misidentified as M. emiliae.
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210812161855.
Hey, Schneider, got y'r marmoset over here
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New marmoset species discovered in Brazilian Amazon 'Schneider's marmoset' is found in the highly th (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Aug 2021
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Wicked Blue
(5,834 posts)1. Awwwwwwwww
so cute
Docreed2003
(16,864 posts)2. They found the source of Rand Paul's weave!