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- Title
Ancient DNA of the pygmy marmoset type specimen Cebuella pygmaea (Spix, 1823) resolves a taxonomic conundrum.
- Authors
Boubli, Jean P.; Janiak, Mareike C.; Porter, Leila M.; la Torre, Stella de; Cortés-Ortiz, Liliana; da Silva, Maria N. F.; Rylands, Anthony B.; Nash, Stephen; Bertuol, Fabrício; Byrne, Hazel; Silva, Felipe E.; Rohe, Fabio; de Vries, Dorien; Beck, Robin M. D.; Ruiz-Gartzia, Irune; Kuderna, Lukas F. K.; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Hrbek, Tomas; Farias, Izeni P.; van Heteren, Anneke H.
- Abstract
The pygmy marmoset, the smallest of the anthropoid primates, has a broad distribution in Western Amazonia. Recent studies using molecular and morphological data have identified two distinct species separated by the Napo and SolimõesAmazonas rivers. However, reconciling this new biological evidence with current taxonomy, i.e., two subspecies, Cebuella pygmaea pygmaea (Spix, 1823) and Cebuella pygmaea niveiventris (Lönnberg, 1940), was problematic given the uncertainty as to whether Spix’s pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea pygmaea) was collected north or south of the Napo and Solimões-Amazonas rivers, making it unclear to which of the two newly revealed species the name pygmaea would apply. Here, we present the first molecular data from Spix’s type specimen of Cebuella pygmaea, as well as novel mitochondrial genomes from modern pygmy marmosets sampled near the type locality (Tabatinga) on both sides of the river. With these data, we can confirm the correct names of the two species identified, i.e., C. pygmaea for animals north of the Napo and SolimõesAmazonas rivers and C. niveiventris for animals south of these two rivers. Phylogenetic analyses of the novel genetic data placed into the context of cytochrome b gene sequences from across the range of pygmy marmosets further led us to reevaluate the geographical distribution for the two Cebuella species. We dated the split of these two species to 2.54 million years ago. We discuss additional, more recent, subdivisions within each lineage, as well as potential contact zones between the two species in the headwaters of these rivers.
- Subjects
AMAZON River Region; PYGMY marmoset; NEW World monkeys; SPECIES distribution; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL morphology; ANIMAL genetics
- Publication
Zoological Research, 2021, Vol 42, Issue 6, p761
- ISSN
2095-8137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2021.143