Lesson's saddle-back tamarin: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Lesson's saddle-back tamarin lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Leontocebus fuscus
Group	Monkeys
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	South America
Class	Mammal
Order	Primates
Family	Callitrichidae

Where does the Lesson's saddle-back tamarin live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Lesson's saddle-back tamarin in 1 country or territory across South America.

Colombia

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the Lesson's saddle-back tamarin endangered?

The Lesson's saddle-back tamarin’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the Lesson's saddle-back tamarin?

The Lesson's saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus fuscus) is a mammal in the order Primates and the family Callitrichidae, genus Leontocebus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About 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. Genetic analysis showed it to be more closely related to the black-mantled tamarin than to the brown-mantled tamarin. Its type locality is in Colombia, in Plaines de Mocoa,

Putumayo, between the Rio Putumayo and Rio Caqueta. It also lives in Brazil.

Lesson's saddle-back tamarin has a head and body length of between 212 millimetres (8.3 in) and 234 millimetres (9.2 in). 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. It weighs between 350 grams (12 oz) and 400 grams (14 oz).

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Lesson's saddle-back tamarin (revision 1356931247), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q94760754 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).