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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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. 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]
References
edit- ^ a b Heymann, E.W.; de la Torre, S.; Mittermeier, R.A. (2020). "Leontocebus lagonotus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T43950A17980627. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T43950A17980627.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 Porter, Leila M.; Dacier, Anand; garber, Paul A. (2016). Rowe, Noel; Myers, Marc (eds.). All the World's Primates. Pogonias Press. p. 335. ISBN 9781940496061.
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