Black tamarin[1][2] | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Family: | Callitrichidae |
Genus: | Saguinus |
Species: | S. niger |
Binomial name | |
Saguinus niger (É. Geoffroy, 1803) |
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Geographic range |
The black tamarin (Saguinus niger) or black-handed tamarin, is a species of tamarin endemic to Brazil.[3] It has traditionally been treated as a subspecies of the Red-handed Tamarin,[1] but lacks the contrasting reddish-orange feet and hands of that species.