Brown-mantled tamarin

Brown-mantled tamarin[1][2]
In Tambopata Park
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[3]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Callitrichidae
Genus: Saguinus
Species: S. fuscicollis
Binomial name
Saguinus fuscicollis
(Spix, 1823)
Geographic range

The brown-mantled tamarin (Saguinus fuscicollis), also known as the saddleback tamarin or the Andean saddle-back tamarin, is a species of tamarin from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[3]

The brown-mantled tamarin is sympatric with the pygmy marmoset, sharing the same habitat in South American counties, and will often raid the gum holes of this species.[3]

Subspecies

References

Wikispecies has information related to: Brown-mantled Tamarin
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Brown-mantled Tamarin.
  1. Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M, eds. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 134. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
  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. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Rylands, A. B. & Mittermeier, R. A. (2008). Saguinus fuscicollis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2 January 2009.

Further reading