Black tamarin

Black tamarin[1][2]
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)
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.

References

  1. ^ a b Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 135. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100247. 
  2. ^ Rylands AB and Mittermeier RA (2009). "The Diversity of the New World Primates (Platyrrhini)". In Garber PA, Estrada A, Bicca-Marques JC, Heymann EW, Strier KB. South American Primates: Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation. Springer. pp. 23–54. ISBN 978-0-387-78704-6. 
  3. ^ a b Rylands, A. B. & Mittermeier, R. A. (2008). Saguinus niger. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 2 January 2009.