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
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)

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
  1. Rylands, A.B. & Mittermeier, R.A. (2008). "Lesson's Saddle-back Tamarin". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T42693A10733757. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T42693A10733757.en. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  2. Rylands, Anthony B.; Eckhard W. Heymann; Jessica Lynch Alfaro; Janet C. Buckner; Christian Roos; Christian Matauschek; Jean P. Boubli; Ricardo Sampaio; and 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.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  3. Porter, Leila M.; Dacier, Anand (2016). Rowe, Noel; Myers, Marc (eds.). All the World's Primates. Pogonias Press. p. 333. ISBN 9781940496061.
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