Lesson's saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus fuscus) is a species of saddle-back tamarin, a type of small monkey from South America. Lesson's saddle-back tamarin was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin, L. fuscicollis.[2][3] Genetic analysis showed it to be more closely related to the black-mantled tamarin than to the brown-mantled tamarin.[3] Its type locality is in Colombia, in Plaines de Mocoa, Putumayo, between the Rio Putumayo and Rio Caqueta.[2] It also lives in Brazil.[3]
Lesson's saddle-back tamarin | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Callitrichidae |
Genus: | Leontocebus |
Species: | L. fuscus
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Binomial name | |
Leontocebus fuscus (Lesson, 1840)
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Approximate range of the Lesson's Saddle-back Tamarin |
Lesson's saddle-back tamarin has a head and body length of between 212 millimetres (8.3 in) and 234 millimetres (9.2 in).[3] Males have tails between 296 millimetres (11.7 in) and 383 millimetres (15.1 in) long, and females have tales between 337 millimetres (13.3 in) and 362 millimetres (14.3 in) long.[3] It weighs between 350 grams (12 oz) and 400 grams (14 oz).[3]
It sometimes associates with Goeldi's marmoset.[3] The IUCN rates it as least concern from a conservation standpoint.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Palacios, E.; Spironello, W.R. (2020). "Leontocebus fuscus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T42693A17980668. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T42693A17980668.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. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
- ^ a b c d e f g Porter, Leila M.; Dacier, Anand (2016). Rowe, Noel; Myers, Marc (eds.). All the World's Primates. Pogonias Press. p. 333. ISBN 9781940496061.