Geoffroy's saddle-back tamarin

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Geoffroy's saddle-back tamarin
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Callitrichidae
Genus:	Leontocebus
Species:	L. nigrifrons
Binomial name
*Leontocebus nigrifrons* (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1850)

Range of the Geoffroy's Saddle-back Tamarin

Geoffroy's saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus nigrifrons) is a species of saddle-back tamarin, a type of small monkey from South America. Geoffroy's saddle-back tamarin was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin, L. fuscicollis.^[2]^[1] It lives in Loreto, Peru.^[2]

Geoffroy's saddle-back tamarin has a head and body length of between 190 millimetres (7.5 in) and 219 millimetres (8.6 in) with a tail length between 305 millimetres (12.0 in) and 333 millimetres (13.1 in) long.^[1] Males weigh about 354 grams (12.5 oz) and females weight about 369 grams (13.0 oz).^[1]

It lives in groups with multiple males and females.^[1] It reaches sexual maturity at 18 months.^[1] Both males and females emigrate from their natal group.^[1] Geoffroy's saddle-back tamarin frequently associates with and forms mixed groups with moustached tamarins, Saguinus mystax.^[1] The two species often sleep in the same tree and both species respond to each other's alarm calls.^[1]

Its diet consists of fruits, gums, nectar, insects and other small animals.^[1]

The IUCN rates it as least concern from a conservation standpoint.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Porter, Leila M.; Dacier, Anand (2016). Rowe, Noel; Myers, Marc (eds.). All the World's Primates. Pogonias Press. p. 338. ISBN 9781940496061.
^ ^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.

Extant species of family Callitrichidae

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini

Callithrix
(Atlantic marmosets)

Mico
(Amazonian marmosets)

Cebuella

Leontopithecus
(lion tamarins)

Leontocebus
(saddle-back tamarins)

Saguinus
(tamarins)

Subgenus Saguinus:	Golden-handed tamarin (S. midas) Black tamarin (S. niger) Eastern black-handed tamarin (S. ursula) Pied tamarin (S. bicolor) Martins's tamarin (S. martinsi) Cotton-top tamarin (S. oedipus) Geoffroy's tamarin (S. geoffroyi) White-footed tamarin (S. leucopus)
Subgenus Tamarinus:	Moustached tamarin (S. mystax) White-lipped tamarin (S. labiatus) Emperor tamarin (S. imperator) Mottle-faced tamarin (S. inustus)

Callimico

Goeldi's marmoset (C. goeldii)

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Taxon identifiers
Leontocebus nigrifrons	Wikidata: Q92285687 Wikispecies: Saguinus nigrifrons CoL: 3T6RL GBIF: 9509098 iNaturalist: 1368630 ITIS: 1025100 IUCN: 43953 MDD: 1000823 Open Tree of Life: 285519 Paleobiology Database: 390649
Hapale nigrifrons	Wikidata: Q122213119 GBIF: 9261604

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