Saddle-back tamarin

The saddle-back tamarins are squirrel-sized New World monkeys from the family Callitrichidae in the genus Leontocebus. They were split from the tamarin genus Saguinus based on genetic data and on the fact that saddle-back tamarins are sympatric with members of Saguinus to a greater extent than would be expected from two members of the same genus.[1][2]

Saddle-back tamarins
Brown-mantled tamarin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Callitrichidae
Genus: Leontocebus
Wagner, 1840
Type species
Leontocebus fuscus
Lesson, 1840
Species

10 species, see text

Synonyms
  • Saguinus Hoffmannsegg, 1807
  • Marikina Lesson, 1840
  • Tamarin Gray, 1870
  • Tamarinus Trouessart, 1904

Species include:[3][4]

In some locations saddle-back tamarins live sympatrically with tamarins of the genus Sanguinus, but the saddle-back tamarins typically occupy lower strata of the forest than do the Sanguinus species.[1] Saddle-back tamarins have longer and narrower hands than Sanguinus species, possibly adaption to differing foraging behavior, as saddle-back tamarins are more likely to search for insects that are hidden in knotholes, crevices, bromeliad tanks and leaf litter, while Sanguinus species are more likely to forage for insects that are exposed on surfaces such as leaves or branches.[1]

References
  1. 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)
  2. Buckner, JC; Lynch Alfaro, JW; Rylands, AB; Alfaro, ME (2015). "Biogeography of the marmosets and tamarins (Callitrichidae)". Mol Phylogenet Evol. 82 Pt B: 413–425. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.04.031. PMID 24857784.
  3. "Leontocebus Wagner, 1840". ITIS. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  4. "Leontocebus". American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
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