Andean saddle-back tamarin

The Andean saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus leucogenys) is a species of saddle-back tamarin, a type of small monkey from South America. Illiger's saddle-back tamarin was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin, L. fuscicollis.[2][3] It is closely related to Illiger's saddle-back tamarin.[3] It is endemic to Peru and its type locality is in the Department of Huanaco, Peru.[2][3]

Andean saddle-back tamarin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Callitrichidae
Genus: Leontocebus
Species:
L. leucogenys
Binomial name
Leontocebus leucogenys
(Gray, 1866)

The Andean saddle-back tamarin has a head and body length of between 205 millimetres (8.1 in) and 230 millimetres (9.1 in) with a tail length between 305 millimetres (12.0 in) and 330 millimetres (13 in) long.[3] It weighs between 350 grams (12 oz) and 400 grams (14 oz).[3]

The IUCN rates it as least concern from a conservation standpoint.[1]

References
  1. Rylands, A.B. & Mittermeier, R.A. (2008). "Andean Saddle-back Tamarin". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T19826A9020564. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T19826A9020564.en.
  2. Rylands, Anthony B.; Eckhard W. Heymann; Jessica Lynch Alfaro; Janet C. Buckner; Christian Roos; Christian Matauschek; Jean P. Boubli; Ricardo Sampaio & Russell A. Mittermeier (2016). "Taxonomic Review of the New World Tamarins (Primates: Callitrichidae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 177 (4): 1003–1028. doi:10.1111/zoj.12386. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  3. Porter, Leila M.; Dacier, Anand (2016). Rowe, Noel; Myers, Marc (eds.). All the World's Primates. Pogonias Press. pp. 334–336. ISBN 9781940496061.
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