Moustached tamarin
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| Moustached tamarin[1] | |
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| Moustached Tamarins at the Bronx Zoo, New York City. | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Callitrichidae |
| Genus: | Saguinus |
| Species: | S. mystax |
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| Saguinus mystax (Spix, 1803) | |
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| 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:
- Spix's moustached tamarin, Saguinus mystax mystax
- White-rumped moustached tamarin, Saguinus mystax pluto
References
- ↑ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M, eds. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 135. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
- ↑ Rylands, A. B. & Mittermeier, R. A. (2008). Saguinus mystax. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2 January 2009.
- 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.
External links
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Data related to Moustached Tamarin at Wikispecies
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