Moustached tamarin

Moustached tamarin[1]
Moustached Tamarins at the Bronx Zoo, New York City.
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Callitrichidae
Genus: Saguinus
Species: S. mystax
Binomial name
Saguinus mystax
(Spix, 1803)
Moustached Tamarin range

The moustached tamarin or Spix's moustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax) is a tamarin found in tropical forests in Brazil and Peru. It is black with a white moustache, white nose, and brownish back. Its diet consists mainly of fruits, tree gum and insects.

There are two subspecies of the moustached tamarin:

References

  1. ^ 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=12100244. 
  2. ^ Rylands, A. B. & Mittermeier, R. A. (2008). Saguinus mystax. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 2 January 2009.

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