White-lipped tamarin

The white-lipped tamarin (Saguinus labiatus), also known as the red-bellied tamarin, is a tamarin which lives in the Amazon area of Brazil and Bolivia.

White-lipped tamarin[1][2]
At Singapore Zoo, Singapore
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[3]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Callitrichidae
Genus:	Saguinus
Species:	S. labiatus
Binomial name
Saguinus labiatus (É. Geoffroy in Humboldt, 1812)
Range of the White-lipped Tamarin

The red belly of these New World monkeys is its most remarkable outward characteristic. Otherwise it is black with a thin white mustache on its face and a black-brown back.

They live in social groups of related animals. The mother usually gives birth to one or two young at a time. The father carries the babies most, but siblings (brothers and sisters) will also share the carrying of youngsters, and so learn how to be good carers.

There are three subspecies:^[1]

• Saguinus labiatus labiatus
• Saguinus labiatus rufiventer
• Thomas' moustached tamarin, Saguinus labiatus thomasi