Brown-mantled Tamarin - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The brown-mantled tamarin (Saguinus fuscicollis), also known as the saddleback tamarin or the Andean saddle-back tamarin, is a species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

of tamarin

Tamarin

The tamarins are squirrel-sized New World monkeys from the family Callitrichidae in the genus Saguinus. They are closely related to the lion tamarins in the genus Leontopithecus.- Range :...

from South America

South America

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. It is found in Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

, Brazil

Brazil

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, Colombia

Colombia

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, Ecuador

Ecuador

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, and Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

Subspecies

S.f.avilapiresi (Avila Pires' saddle-back tamarin)
S.f.cruzlimai (Cruz Lima's saddle-back tamarin)
S.f.fuscicollis (Spix's saddle-back tamarin)
S.f.fuscus (Lesson’s saddle-back tamarin)
S.f.illigeri (Illiger's saddle-back tamarin)
S.f.lagonotus (Red-mantle saddle-back tamarin)
S.f.leucogenys (Andean saddle-back tamarin)
S.f.mura (Mura's saddle-back tamarin)
S.f.nigrifrons (Geoffroy's saddle-back tamarin)
S.f.primitivus (Lako's saddleback tamarin)
S.f.weddelli (Weddell's saddle-back tamarin)

Subspecies

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