Editing Common marmoset (section)

==Physical description and morphology==
[[File:Sahui-drawing.jpg|thumb|left|Drawing of a marmoset]]
Common marmosets are very small monkeys with relatively long tails. Males are slightly larger than females; males have an average height of {{convert|188|mm|in|2|abbr=on}} and females have an average height of {{convert|185|mm|in|2|abbr=on}}. Males weigh {{convert|256|g|oz|2|abbr=on}} on average and females weigh {{convert|236|g|oz|2|abbr=on}} on average.<ref name= "Rowe 1996">{{cite book |last=Rowe |first=N. |year=1996 |title=Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates |url=https://archive.org/details/pictorialguideto0000rowe |url-access=registration |location=East Hampton |publisher=Pogonias Press |isbn=978-0-9648825-0-8 }}</ref> The pelage of the marmoset is multicolored, being sprinkled with brown, grey, and yellow. It also has white ear tufts and the tail is banded. Its face has black across the nose-area skin and a white blaze on the forehead.<ref>Groves C. (2001) ''Primate taxonomy''. Washington DC: Smithsonian Inst Pr.</ref> The coats of infants are brown and yellow with the ear tuft developing later.

As with other members of the genus ''Callithrix'', the common marmosets have claw-like nails known as tegulae on most of their fingers. Only their [[hallux|halluces]] (big toes) have the flat nails or ungulae that most other primates have.<ref>Garber PA, Rosenberger AL, Norconk MA. (1996) "Marmoset misconceptions". In: Norconk MA, Rosenberger AL, Garber PA, editors. ''Adaptive radiations of neotropical primates''. New York: Plenum Pr. pp. 87–95.</ref> Marmosets have an arboreal locomotion similar to squirrels. They can hang onto trees vertically and leap between them, and run across branches quadrupedally.<ref name= "Rowe 1996"/><ref name= "Kinzey 1997">Kinzey WG. 1997. "Synopsis of New World primates (16 genera) ". In: Kinzey WG, editor. ''New world primates: ecology, evolution, and behavior''. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. pp. 169–324.</ref> Tegulae are an adaptation for this type of locomotion. Other ''Callithrix'' traits shared include enlarged, chisel-shaped incisors and [[cecum|ceca]] specialized for their diet.<ref name= "Rowe 1996"/>