Red-mantled saddle-back tamarin

The red-mantled saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus lagonotus) is a species of saddle-back tamarin, a type of small monkey from South America. The red-mantled saddle-back tamarin was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin, L. fuscicollis.^[2][3] It lives in Ecuador and Peru and its type locality is in Peru, near the confluence of the Amazon River and the Napo River.^[2][3]

Red-mantled saddle-back tamarin
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Callitrichidae
Genus:	Leontocebus
Species:	L. lagonotus
Binomial name
Leontocebus lagonotus (Jiménez de la Espada, 1870)
Range of the Red-mantled Saddle-back Tamarin
Synonyms
Leontocebus fuscicollis lagonotus (Jimenez de la Espada, 1870) Saguinus fuscicollis lagonotus (Jimenez de la Espada, 1870)

The red-mantled saddle-back tamarin has a head and body length of between 220 millimetres (8.7 in) and 270 millimetres (11 in) with a tail length between 275 millimetres (10.8 in) and 330 millimetres (13 in) long.^[3] It weighs between 350 grams (12 oz) and 400 grams (14 oz).^[3]

The IUCN rates it as least concern from a conservation standpoint.^[1]