Callitrichidae

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin Callithrix +‎ -idae, from Ancient Greek καλή (kalḗ, “beautiful”) + τριχός (trikhós, “hair”)

Proper noun

Callitrichidae

1. A taxonomic family within the order Primates – marmosets and tamarins, formerly a subfamily Callithrichinae in family Cebidae.

Hypernyms

• (family): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia - infraclass; Primates - order; Haplorrhini – suborder; Simiiformes – infraorder; Platyrrhini – parvorder

Hyponyms

• (family): Callimico, Callithrix, Cebuella, Leontocebus, Leontopithecus, Saguinus - extant genera

References

• Callitrichidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Callithrichinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Callitrichidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Callitrichinae at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Callitrichidae at AnimalBase
• Callitrichidae at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Callitrichidae available from http://www.irmng.org at VLIZ.03 Rees, T. (compiler) (2017). The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
• Callithrichinae in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.