Red-mantled saddle-back tamarin
Species of New World monkey
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The red-mantled saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus lagonotus) is a species of saddle-back tamarin, a type of small monkey from South America. The red-mantled saddle-back tamarin was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin, L. fuscicollis.[2][3] It lives in Ecuador and Peru and its type locality is in Peru, near the confluence of the Amazon River and the Napo River.[2][3]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Callitrichidae |
| Genus: | Leontocebus |
| Species: | L. lagonotus |
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| Leontocebus lagonotus (Jiménez de la Espada, 1870) | |
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| Range of the Red-mantled Saddle-back Tamarin | |
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The red-mantled saddle-back tamarin has a head and body length of between 220 millimetres (8.7 in) and 270 millimetres (11 in) with a tail length between 275 millimetres (10.8 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]
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