Mico

Mico is a genus of New World monkeys of the family Callitrichidae that was formerly treated as a subgenus of Callithrix. It differs from Callithrix in dental morphology, genetics and geography: Callithrix species live in eastern Brazil, mainly the Atlantic Forest, while Mico species live in the Amazon rainforest south of the lower Amazon and Madeira Rivers, and the black-tailed marmoset also reaches the Pantanal and Chaco. Nine of the sixteen species now recognised were described only after 1990. Exudates such as gum and sap, together with fruit, nectar and fungus, make up the bulk of the diet, supplemented by arthropods, young birds, small lizards and frogs, and chisel-like lower incisors and an enlarged cecum let these monkeys gouge trees and digest gums. Females generally give birth to two or more infants at a time.