| Black-mantled tamarin [1] [2] | |
|---|---|
| Leontocebus nigricollis graellsi, Ecuador | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Callitrichidae |
| Genus: | Leontocebus |
| Species: | L. nigricollis |
| Binomial name | |
| Leontocebus nigricollis (Spix, 1823) | |
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| Range of the Black-mantled Tamarin | |
The black-mantled tamarin, Leontocebus nigricollis, is a species of saddle-back tamarin from the northwestern Amazon in far western Brazil, southeastern Colombia, north-eastern Peru and eastern Ecuador. [4] [5]
There are 3 subspecies: [4] [5]
Graells's tamarin was previously considered to be a separate species. [6] [7] [8]