| Lesson's saddle-back tamarin | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Callitrichidae |
| Genus: | Leontocebus |
| Species: | L. fuscus |
| Binomial name | |
| Leontocebus fuscus (Lesson, 1840) | |
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| Approximate range of the Lesson's Saddle-back Tamarin | |
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 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]
