Illiger's saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus illigeri) 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 the Andean saddle-back tamarin.[3] It is endemic to the Peruvian Amazon and its type locality is in Loreto, Peru, at the left bank of the lower Rio Ucayali.[2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Callitrichidae |
| Genus: | Leontocebus |
| Species: | L. illigeri
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| Leontocebus illigeri (Pucheran, 1845)
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| Range of the Illiger's Saddle-back Tamarin | |
Illiger's saddle-back tamarin has a head and body length of between 175 millimetres (6.9 in) and 205 millimetres (8.1 in) with a tail length between 300 millimetres (12 in) and 305 millimetres (12.0 in) long.[3] Males weigh about 292 grams (10.3 oz) and females weight about 296 grams (10.4 oz).[3]
The IUCN rates it as near threatened from a conservation standpoint.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Heymann, E.W.; Shanee, S.; Mittermeier, R.A. (2020). "Leontocebus illigeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T43952A17980750. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T43952A17980750.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ a b 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-01-28. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
- ^ a b c d e Porter, Leila M.; Dacier, Anand (2016). Rowe, Noel; Myers, Marc (eds.). All the World's Primates. Pogonias Press. p. 334. ISBN 9781940496061.
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