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marmosets  

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  • Marmosets are the smallest platyrrhines or New World monkeys (NWMs). They are closely related to Goeldi's monkeys, tamarins, and lion tamarins, which together form the subfamily Callithrichinae. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Marmosets]

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