Black tamarin
| Black tamarin[1][2] | |
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| 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.
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- 1 2 Groves, C.P. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 135. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 Rylands, A. B. & Mittermeier, R. A. (2008). Saguinus niger. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2 January 2009.
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