The gold-and-white marmoset[1], also called the golden-white tassel-ear marmoset, is a species of marmoset, a tiny monkey native to the Amazon rainforest in the eastern Amazonas state of Brazil.
- Females and males of Mico chrysoleucos are monomorphic. However, as with other tamarins and marmosets, the species have tufts of hair that distinguish them from other primates.
- The tufts have long white hair and are on the ears. Their fur is a pale yellow to orange. The face is pink.
- In this species, like other tamarins and marmosets, the claws replace the nails of most of the toes, facilitating their scansorial mode of locomotion.
- Gold-and-white marmosets don’t have opposable thumbs; this also applies to other tamarins and marmosets but differs from most other primates.
